Re: [chat] Re: [SLUG] Meaning of Nonsense in s p a m

[Michael Lake <Mike.Lake@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Malcolm V wrote:
> I think these strings are added mainly to fool simple string matching
> filters. The fact that they may bloat statistical based filtering
> programs is probably seen as serendipity by the spammers.

The issue of spam containing gibberish got a mention on the 
comp.text.tex list today.

>Contact your news admin.  The news server I use filters out all messages 
 >that are cross-posted to more than five newsgroups, and all messages that
 >are essentially identical to other messages that are posted in more than
>five newsgroups. 
>As a result, the _only_ spam I've seen on this group is the anti-Segway polemic, 
 >and that one is carefully constructed to avoid this sort of filter -- 
you'll
>note the three paragraphs of gibberish at the end of it, which are there for 
the express
>purpose of making it different from the "duplicates" posted elsewhere (on every other 
>newsgroup on all of usenet that the miscreant could get to). 

So there is another reason why gibberish is added - to make each message 
unique.

-- 

Mike Lake
Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical.



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