[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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