Re: my solution to image spam (previously mentioendconsistant failures)

"David A. Lee" <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:30:48 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spamprobe.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Case in point ... my wife is an addict to "Incredimail" which does exactly 
this.




> Thomas Schürger wrote:
>> David A. Lee schrieb:
>>
>>> What about inlined external images ?
>>> A lot of solicted (aka HAM to me) email has external images.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> External images are obviously not a problem, because they are referenced
>> by some
>> URL. spamprobe will quickly be able to decide between spam image URLs and
>> ham image URLs.
>>
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Thomas.
>>
> What happens to email created in html format with images included in
> that html. I get a lot of email which falls under that category? In fact
> a lot of end users find it cutesy to use such, or even one of the built
> in email templates from Outlook.
>
> I personally think this solution is a bit too simplistic, not taking
> into account the exceptions. Although it would be wonderful it was just
> that easy.
>
> John Hinton
>
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