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Old 08-19-2003, 01:28 PM
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Why does spam have garbled subject lines?

Seems all the spam I get lately has garbled subject lines...is this some effort to thwart spam blocking software?

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Old 08-19-2003, 03:44 PM
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Different character and language set on senders system.
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Old 08-19-2003, 05:44 PM
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I think some of it is to avoid spamkillers, however, some of the spammers clearly just kant spel correctly.
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Old 08-19-2003, 07:05 PM
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I thought it was the different character sets, also, but much of it has a correctly spelled word or several in amongst the crap. What gives? It may make it past a spamkiler but it's the surest sign to me that it's crap.

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Old 08-20-2003, 02:31 PM
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This was addressed in a news article. It's an effort to thwart spam blocking software. I can't remember the exact nuts and bolts of this, but each message sent becomes unique to the receiver, while somehow the spam blocking software looks for repetitive, same subject lines.

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