Weird text e-mails ?

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I sometimes get an e-mail from an unknown sender where the content is a paragraph of maybe
50 to 500 words in one long stream which seem totally unrelated and make no sense or
sentence.

Anyone know what this is ? - NAV 2004 doesn't seem to object to it .

Nick
 
nick smith said:
I sometimes get an e-mail from an unknown sender where the content is a paragraph of maybe
50 to 500 words in one long stream which seem totally unrelated and make no sense or
sentence.

Anyone know what this is ? - NAV 2004 doesn't seem to object to it .
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Spam often includes a stream of nonsensical text. It's intended to
frustrate and evade the Bayesian filters used by some anti-spam software.

Regards,
Ian.
 
"> Spam often includes a stream of nonsensical text. It's intended to
frustrate and evade the Bayesian filters used by some anti-spam software.

Regards,
Ian.
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OK - thanks for that. Doesn't seem much point to it then.

Nick
 
nick said:
I sometimes get an e-mail from an unknown sender where the content is a paragraph of maybe
50 to 500 words in one long stream which seem totally unrelated and make no sense or
sentence.

Anyone know what this is ? - NAV 2004 doesn't seem to object to it .
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it's spam... that 'word salad' is a fairly common feature in spam...
 
Ionizer wrote:
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Spam often includes a stream of nonsensical text. It's intended to
frustrate and evade the Bayesian filters used by some anti-spam software.
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i really don't know why this myth persists... the 'word salad' is
technically a "hash buster" and since bayesian filters don't rely on
hashing, it isn't necessarily effected against them... at best it would
cause problems for poorly trained bayesian filters...
 
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