Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

From: Mike Meyer (mwm_at_mired.org)
Date: 10/09/05 

Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 06:32:07 -0400

Roedy Green <my_email_is_posted_on_my_website@munged.invalid> writes:
> There is no fundamental reason that formatted spam should have an
> easier time penetrating your defenses than plain text spam.

Formatted spam can include pictures of words. That's a common spam
tactic - send a multipart/alternative with a text part that look like
a letter from aunt jane - and mention that you're sending a
picture. The picture part is basically a jpeg of a flyer for the spam
companies product.

If you've got a spam filter that can determine that a picture of words
is spam, I'd like to know about it.

   <mike 

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