Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:18:03 -0500
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Spam with no purpose?Can someone explain to me (publicly or privately) why someone would
send
spam with no product to sell, no position to pitch, nothing except
text
designed to get by a spam filter -- without even HTML to KNOW it got
by
a spam filter..
It is a probe to verify the address. since it did not bounce, the
address is verified.
Some spam filters filter out empty messages. The words avoid this.
Regards,
Gregory Hicks
For example:
From: Joe Legitimate <jlegit@university.edu>
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Subject: [dictionary word][dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary
word]
[dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary
word]
[dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary
word]
[dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary
word]
[dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary
word]
--- EOM ---
I don't understand why one would waste the time, if its a test, why
would it get out in public?I would like to think I am being naive, but I just don't see the
upside
unless it were particularly targeted at me or my mailserver to
determine