word salad spam

[G.Waleed Kavalec]

PS

In my humble opinion it is time to start pressuring the upstream big players.

They conduct spam from their clients, they could detect it, they could
put in AUPs.

They don't because it makes them money and mid range players don't
make it an issue.



On 6/7/05, G.Waleed Kavalec <kavalec at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> > "I'd Rather Be Sailing"
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> G. Waleed Kavalec
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