word salad spam

[G.Waleed Kavalec]

Assume I plan to send out real spam in an hour.

I send out lots and lots of  word salad now (from another ip)

Your Bayesian spam blocker gets it's numbers all skewed.

A bigger percentage (they hope) of the real spam goes through.



On 6/7/05, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> > On 06/06/2005 05:59 PM, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> >
> >> Hello list;
> >>
> >> Please refresh my memory again re:  spam e-mails that consist of word
> >> salad (random words).
> >> a.  What's the spammer's objective?
> >
> >
> > Poisoning bayesian filters.
> >
> >> b.  What's the danger, if any, to a linux box with text-only mail client?
> >
> >
> > zero
> >
> >> c.  What might be the danger to a Mac running text-only e-mail client?
> >
> >
> > zero
> >
> > Spam is never dangerous, its just a nuisance.
> >
> 
> Well, I don't get the point.  Why send it if there is no content,
> nothing to sell, no machine to crack, etc?  Is the objective to poison
> the filter of the isp to then allow some other spam with content to make
> it through the filter?
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Tony Alfrey
> tonyalfrey at earthlink.net
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