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[Asrg] Re: 2a. Analysis - Spam filled with words

At 11:50 AM -0500 9/10/03, Terry Sullivan wrote:

But in these "new" emails, exactly opposite is true.  The text is
*not* broken up; on the contrary, it's perfectly intact, but "hidden"
from *human* readers.
Nonetheless, this is not new. White on white text of random words (or even random news articles) has been used in spam for some time. See the MIT Spam Conference discussion of "eye-space". One more reason I consider filtering based on content a waste of time.

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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.

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