Gibberish in Spam Mail

[jb]

I think I remember reading that older versions of MS Outlook will do a
buffer over run or something to that effect if over 300 characters are
put in the subject line. I realize that particular spam's jibberish was
in the body of the message but maybe they were trying a similar tactic.
It may have also been in a different language and rendered in english?
It looked like standard HTML tags, line breaks and the jibberish seemed
to be word length. I keep getting subject lines with broken words with
under_scores so they hopefully slip thru spam filters. I don't use one
yet but I see it coming in the near future.
Just my 2 cents while I wait for my downloads to complete. Synaptic sure
is a nice addition to apt-get...
jb

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On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 10:36, Mark T. Valites wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, hawkwynd wrote:
> 
> >
> > Periodically, when I look through some of the spam I receive, there's
> > garbled text, and words that are not real words
> 
> I've seen a handfull of these slip through spamassassin for me over the
> last month or so. I suspect the spammers are creating multi-part messages
> with gibberish in plain text formatting, and the real spam in the html.
> Often all I see in pine is the gibberish until I view the raw message, but
> my users whose email clients happily render anything see both parts.