Spam tactics

[strange_complex]

Isn't it weird how the very devices which the proponents of spam use to get past automatic filtering systems also make their emails instantly identifiable as spam to human beings?

I just got an email on the Oxgoths mailing list from a sender named 'Debian-user', with an attachment, entitled

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[kaz_pixie]

it does seem highly ridiculous though - i mean when you get a random catalogue email or from amazon or something, unless there's something you want in the first place then you delete the email without even opening it.
I don't open emails if i don't know who they're from.

[stompyboots]

for some strange reason a lot of Hugh's mail to the list gets flagged

That'd be Hugh's unconventional approach to writing, methinks. The number of texts I've received from him that only make sense when read aloud, very quickly, in a Northern accent . . .

[strange_complex]

The attachment is added by the list server, and basically says "I think this message is spam, here's why".

Ah right, sensible. Having not even opened the message, I didn't know this.