Spam with no purpose?

Thu Apr 1 18:36:46 UTC 2004

Deepak Jain wrote:
> 
> 
> Can someone explain to me (publicly or privately) why someone would send 
> spam with no product to sell, no position to pitch, nothing except text 
> designed to get by a spam filter -- without even HTML to KNOW it got by 
> a spam filter..
> 

Quite often it's broken spam-ware. Ever see %RND_UC_CHAR in the subject? 
Broken software. Spammer didn't even RTFM for his own ratware.

Properly trained SpamAssassin with some additional rulesets 
(http://www.exit0.us) catches the vast majority of those.

-Jonathan