Gibberish in Spam Mail

[Robert Todd]

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.

That's one thing I like about the spam filter in my my all-in-wonder BBS
package :)  It tends to catch EVERYTHING :)  Then again, it uses the
SpamCop and MAPS RBL servers to check messages, too :)

Robert Todd
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