At 07:20 PM 1/13/2004 -0600, Jim Korman wrote:

>Nate Duehr wrote:
>
>>On Monday, Jan 12, 2004, at 19:50 America/Denver, amg amg wrote:
>>
>>>While we're on the subject of Spam, is anybody else getting spam with a
>>>whole string of seemingly unrelated words?  The spam I'm thinking of
>>>isn't selling/pushing anything and it bugs me that I don't understand
>>>the
>>>significance of the assortment of words.  Anybody care to enlighten me?
>>
>>
>>They are an attempt to confuse Baysian filters that "learn"
>>mathematically what spam "looks" like.
>What I don't understand is, If they have to go to that much
>
>trouble to get past my SPAM filter, do they really think
>that I'm going to read it?


I've been getting a bunch lately, that have bunches of five letter groups, like crypto output.  I don't see the point, since nobody can read it anyway.

Interesting development.

I also get "diet spam" with nothing in the body at all.

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