The latest spam that made it to my Inbox looks like this:
sielkundiges
xhdgkcuh`ezapatascratchtu,_s^.a ph,a.-rm & next-d.~ay sh-‘ipp^’ing
nagstoel
etaicurcinch-pounds http://…
In order to get past my antispam software, the spammers now need to disfigure
their message to the point where it’s barely legible. When I see this, I
start thinking that maybe we are slowly beginning to win this war…
Now if only we could find a way for these spams not to be sent in the first
place…
#1 by Pierre CARION on August 3, 2004 - 10:39 am
Y s*7hy &^st’ !
#2 by C. Halstead on August 3, 2004 - 1:09 pm
I’ll believe we’re winning when even something like this does not get through to my mail box: http://www.chris.com/ascii/art/html/spam.html
To be honest, I’m surprised that no spammer has used this approach (that I’m aware of)…
#3 by MT on August 3, 2004 - 4:18 pm
We’re far from winning against spam because most anti-spamming software mistakenly put “legitimate” non-spam e-mails into my Bulk folder. As a result, I’m forced to check my Bulk folder for what could be important e-mail — an effort that is probably just as time-consuming as deleting spam e-mail from my Inbox folder. 🙁
#4 by Glen Stampoultzis on August 3, 2004 - 4:35 pm
Spam bayes has been working pretty well for me. Mind you I don’t get huge volumes of spam despite spreading my email address far and wide across the internet.
#5 by Brian Goetz on August 9, 2004 - 9:02 pm
We’re not winning, its just that the spammers have started to lose almost as much as we have. That’s not the same as winning, although it might be an intermediate step.