At 00:58 2003-12-02 -0500, Byron Sonne <blsonne-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
Is there anyone out there that has paid attention to the trends in spam, in particular topics?
Uh-oh. In the continuing battle against spam, I just lost a point by actually opening one. Here is how I go sucked in: the spam arrived on a mailing list for an open-source software project, and the subject carried the word "bug-automake". Did the spammer just figure that a lot of people on the internet are programmers? Or, did a program pick this term out of previous messages on the list? If the latter technique becomes widespread, it could almost destroy the value of unmoderated lists. Horrible thought! Terry. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml