[ale] (OT) example of how they are trying to fool spam filters

[Charles Shapiro]

This and several other techniques are covered in the excellent
Field Guide to Spam (
http://www.activestate.com/Products/PureMessage/Field_Guide_to_Spam/?_x=1 ).

-- CHS

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 09:16, Fulton Green wrote:
> SpamAssassin will translate the ASCII codes.  Dealing with the random
> spaces in the "trigger words" (the ones that filters look for) is another
> matter entirely.
> 
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:56:28AM -0600, Preston Boyington wrote:
> > anyone see this before?
> > 
> >   #79;ur  #112;ills or #32;p #97; #116;ches  #119;ill d #111; all the
> > #32;work  #102;or you #46;
> > 
> >   U #110;subs #99;ribe #32;me ple #97;s #101;
> > 
> > says "Our pills or patches will do all the work for you" and "unsubscribe me
> > please" in the original html message.
> > 
> > yay, HTML!!!  although it _is_ interesting to see how folks are trying to
> > skirt around filters.  do other's filters catch this sort of message?
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