[Spambayes] Re: Cute spam trick
Drew Raines
drew-public at poured.net
Wed Dec 18 11:13:19 EST 2002
Tim Peters <tim.one@comcast.net> writes:
> Staring at the source revealed a cute trick I haven't seen before:
>
> ...
> Let the Len<!--yczvHV-->ders <br>
> Com<!--yczvHV-->pete for your Lo<!--yczvHV-->an!</font></b></div>
> ...
>
> That is, the spammy words like Lenders and Compete and Loan! are broken up
> by embedded HTML comments.
Perhaps the evolution of this technique could result in HTML-
e-mail's demise? If nothing else, MUA's which send with HTML by
default may stop doing so.
One can dream.
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