Re: Hidden text.
Bill Cole <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general |
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On 2025-08-16 at 17:01:05 UTC-0400 (Sat, 16 Aug 2025 17:01:05 -0400) Alan via users <[email protected]> is rumored to have said: > On 2025-08-16 16:03, Hans Mayer wrote: >> >> Dear All, >> >> Interesting. I never saw this, maybe because I didn't look close >> enough. >> But stupid question: Why does it make sense for spammers or in >> general for newsletters to add hidden text ? >> >> // Hans >> > > To evade Bayes filtering. It's usually a large body of text taken from > a book or something similar, so a text analysis makes the whole > message look less spammy overall. There's a funny thing about that; published prose and non-spam email do not actually look very similar. It's also noteworthy that most of the spammers who do that use the most disreputable infrastructure of the net. It is very rare from quasi-legitimate (ESP) or mixed (retail mailbox provider) mail sources. -- Bill Cole [email protected] or [email protected] (AKA @[email protected] and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire