The Growing Field Guide To Spam Techniques

Aneusomy writes "From Activestate: 'Compiled by Dr. John Graham-Cumming, a leading anti-spam researcher and member of the ActiveState Anti-Spam Task Force, the ActiveState Field Guide to Spam is a selection of the tricks spammers use to hide their messages from filters, providing examples taken from real-world spam messages.' The hope is that Activestate and others can contribute to continually expand this guide, so that anti-spam filters improve."

Comments

Re:Dirty Little Secret

[BrokenHalo]

Linux and Linus Torvalds are more responsible and liable for spam than any other single entity.

What a dumbass thing to say. As if it isn't possible to use any winbloze, mac, beos or [OS of your choice] box to distribute spam. Duh...

Re:MX records

[Anonymous Coward]

Nice idea, but probably too much hassle to be implemented in the near to middle future. Id really prefer if we could finally get rid of the current unsecure and spammer- friendly SMTP instead...

anti-spammers' Dirty Little Secret

[airdrummer]

As these types of tricks are discovered, ActiveState's team of spam analysts creates new heuristics to identify them, and provides these heuristics as part of the regular PureMessage SpamCheck updates.

A.S. don't want 2 solve the spam problem, they want 2 sell bandaids... the _only_ solution is 2 charge 4 every byte sent, but that's a filthy capitalist/market-oriented idea unacceptable 2 marxist-befuddled computer "scientists"