[lbo-talk] spam subjects

[Matt]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:48:30PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Does anyone understand why spammers recently started using nonsense 
> subject headings? I just got this: "litus asden uunwom."

Some spammers include random text in their crap to try and defeat
scanners that compare the hash (one-way cryptographic calculation,
which provides a "fingerprint") of an email against a known database
of spam hashes.  Changing a piece of the text changes the hash.

Or possibly the spam is using a non-ASCII character set and your mail
client did the best it could to display the characters.

Matt

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