[Cialug] SPAM question

[Stephen Hawkins]

Jerry,

On Tuesday 01 August 2006 21:26, Jerry Heiselman wrote:
> I've been getting tons of them per day.  Luckily, with gmail, I can
> preview the first little bit of the message, so it's easily
> identifiable as Spam since the text is always gibberish.  

I am getting it also, and am a little puzzled by it.  Most Spam is trying to 
sell you something, or find live email address, or infect you with something.  
This spam appears to have no function at all.  

I get some other that is html.  It doesn't make much sense, but is a little 
more grammatically correct then these.  I keep my email program set on text 
only.  That spam could be fishing for good email addresses, as hidden in the 
html is usually something that will let them know when the html is executed 
so to speak.  But this new stuff is text only and won't even do that.  So why 
even send it???

Steve
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