Post #80066 by freddiefreelance on Tue, Mar 9, 2004 9:54 AM

This is to try & fool SPAM filtering software that looks for keywords & measures them against the rest of the content, the same reason they spell Xanax as "X|a|N|a|X!!" When the software finds "Xanax" or "Hot Teens!" or other keywords too many times, or emails that all contain the same number of bytes, or all from the same domain, it pops it into the "SPAM" folder for you to double check & delete. This is why spammers're misspelling words & adding seeming random text to the Subject lines & bodies of emails, plus they're forging the email's from fied & other header info and using trojan horses to put email servers on personal PCs with "always-on" connections to the Internet!

This is just the latest salvo in the war against a very profitable, & increasingly corrupt, industry. We won't start seeing a significant decrease in spam until there's a significant international effort to control it.

Also, if you think email spam's bad, wait 'til you start getting text message spam on your cell phone. In Japan it's reported to average a dozen messages a day for most phones, & you're paying to receive it!