X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,9c5db9e6be40caff X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-11 16:25:27 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!206.252.192.28!news.stealth.net!24.30.200.2.MISMATCH!news-east.rr.com!news.rr.com!cyclone.kc.rr.com!news.kc.rr.com!cyclone3.kc.rr.com!news3.kc.rr.com!typhoon.kc.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art From: Nate / DAC X-Sender: natedac@flute.daconcepts.dyndns.org Subject: Re: OT: Spamfighting (was: All YOUR Romantic Needs - Relationship101.com 9857) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Lines: 29 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 00:23:46 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.166.131.83 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: typhoon.kc.rr.com 981937426 24.166.131.83 (Sun, 11 Feb 2001 18:23:46 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 18:23:46 CST Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:4368 > > Anyone know why the subject of so much spam contains a 4 digit number? > > It appears that it's supposed to evade cancelbots and spamfilters that > search for a: certain subjectlines and b: messages with the same subject > etc. being posted multiple times... Seems like certain SpamWare inserts > those automatically... I'd like to see a good spamfilter that can get around these cable box ads we see. You know, f.r-e=e..c-a^b.l;e' and the like. > [1] More or less publicly funded. Definetely better than pretty much any > of the ISP-or otherwise commercially-run newsservers over here. *Far* > better. Free to use. And the address to this server is......? -- ________________________________________________________ | . . | _____ | | _ _ _|_ _ _| _ _ | C64/C128- _///@@@| | | |/ \'_| | / \ / |'_| / ` | What's /'//ZZ@@|____ | | | |/ | | L-'| |/ || | *YOUR* |'''/ |'/@7 | | | |\_|_\_\_. \_|\_|_\_. | hobby? |`'| `~~' | | _ . . `-----------. | `| .--. | | /_\ | _ _ _ |_ | _ _ _ ._ _ | | `\____|___\ | | |(_Y |/(_`/ `'_|| \|/_) / `/ \| | | | \_ | | | \_. |\._)\_.(_||_/|\_. O \_.\_/| | | | \_____| | `---------------------------------------"----------------'