Re: Why Spam is a problem

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry at piermont.com>]

John Stracke <jstracke at centivinc.com> writes:
> Mmm, but that pours gasoline on the villagers' torches.  It'd be much
> more clearly a crime, since it's so obviously an attempt to evade the
> recipient's filters.

Are you kidding? They've been doing thing to explicitly evade filters
for years now. For example, ever notice groups of random characters at
the end of spam Subject: lines? those are there to evade some of the
early filtering techniques based on having trap addresses that got
spam and rapidly distributed block lists based on what arrived.

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Perry E. Metzger		perry at piermont.com
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