In article <20031202130036.8DF5F4054-xzRQuAxiFLNWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org>, cbbrowne at acm.org wrote:

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The odd trend I have been seeing is for there to be large numbers of spam messages that seem totally futile. There's no way of contacting them to buy their services. No URLs. No valid return address. No way for the message to be of any value whatever, supposing I _did_ want to increase my breasts by a couple of sizes.

Two possibilities I can imagine.

1. Spammers acutely aware that they are wrong, and defying the world to catch them, even if it means losing a sale.

2. Steganography.

You forgot 3. 3. By attempting to respond to them, you have just varified your email address so they can sell that email address to other spammers. -- Keith -- 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