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

Dirty Little Secret

[Anonymous Coward]

The dirty little secret about spamming that you never read on Slashdot is that spammers use Linux systems to generate the spam and Linux mail relays to send it.

Linux and Linus Torvalds are more responsible and liable for spam than any other single entity. Personally I use IIS 6.0 which is secured against any external threat.

Re:Dirty Little Secret

[JamesO]

You're a friend of someone who used to be a spammer?

That's what I call a dirty little secret...

Re:"Tricks?"

[dillkvast]

And for crying out loud, "spam" is not an acronym so stop writing it in upper case!

Actually writing it uppercase suggests that you are crying it out loud.

Re: SPAM

[Jafafa Hots]

Sexual Propaganda Aimed at Men