Re: Secret Codes in Spam and PHP

On Friday 17 September 2004 04:14, Kristopher Spencer-Yates wrote: > As many of you may have noticed, A friend and I have noticed the odd > text at the bottom of spam. My friend once stated "What if this is some > secret code.. they send it to everyone to hide that it is code.. but the > person it is intended for knows how to decipher?" In the early days of spam filtering, one method was to simply take a spam message and hash it. The "odd text" at the bottom of the spam is a simple ploy to get around this particular method of spam detection. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand. -- Spinoza */