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Arrgghhhh... From the
BBC comes this report on new techniques to slip spam past spam blocking software:
bq. Good news for spammers, the smart filtering software used to catch spam can be beaten.
bq. With a little ingenuity it is possible to create messages that get past anti-spam filters every single time.
bq. The discovery has been made by anti-spam researcher John Graham-Cumming who studies the novel ways spammers try to defeat the technologies used to stop junk mail.
bq. The bad news for spammers is that this flaw in filtering systems is not easy to exploit and can be combated.
I have seen a huge growth of this at work and at home - some of the choices for random words are downright poetical - an
exquisite corpse made of spam subject lines has potential.
Posted by DaveH at February 4, 2004 11:04 AM