Re: SPAM mail subject line

by Kid Stevens <kstevens89(at)comcast.net>

Date:	Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:24:44 -0600
To:	hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
References:	yerpso arthurian yerpso2
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A truly good SPAM tool wood look at the from line and compare it to a
dictionary.  No real words anywhere SPAM trash.  Another would be to do a
DNS lookup on the bottom most received line and send it to SPAM trash if
the DNS name and IP address do not match.

Unless you view headers you won't see that received from line.

At 1:31 PM -0500 7/30/02, Hank Marquardt wrote:
>Yeah I believe it does ... it's always a flip flop ... just like virus'
>and virus protection vendors ... on invents ways to stop, the other to
>circumvent ... the circle continues
>
>On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 12:42:39PM -0400, Brian Smith wrote:
>> On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Hank Marquardt wrote:
>>
>> > second it's possible that it's used to avoid canned spam filters that
>> > scan based on subject line ... by attaching a random string it might
>> > avoid a few of those ... particularly if the filter is stateful and tags
>> > as spam when a number of identical messages come into the server -- the
>> > randomness would help avoid the identicalness part.
>>
>> Unless, of course, you have a spam filter that specifically looks for
>> garbage like that.  SpamAssassin does, if I'm not mistaken.
>>
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