Re: Re: Strange mail with number in subject line and body

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, [email protected] wrote:

> 
> They are not from any particular IP. 3 that I looked at came from a 
> Bell South IP, an IP in RIPE, and an IP in APNIC. Seems to be a bot network.
>
> My best guess is that this is meant to poison the statistics of bayesian mail filters and trick them into letting spam through.

   Do you really think a few mails with just a number in it will have
   a noticeable effect on the filters? To me it seems more likely that
   someone uses a bot net for address verification and list washing.

   Cheers,

   Christine Kronberg.


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