Has anyone noticed that spam is getting worse? I don't mean by frequency of spammage, but of the content of the spam? The subject lines alone are riddled with corrupt data where you may see something like
HiwTherew,wwNeedwawFr?aw
... and the content may be garbled as well? It sure looks like if this keeps up that people will just be getting blocks of unreadable crap rather than the annoying readable crap they currently get...
How does this corruption occur? Is it all this spam trading that spam sellers gather and resell without bothering to check the content of the spam?
How about those spam databases for sale? I recently saw one that had so much crap at least 20% out of a few hundred thousand were unusable invalid emails right off the bat.
Hopefully for the users of the Internet the spam will kill itself off since there is no centralized spam control aka spam kingpin, combined with the anti-spam mechanisms (such as the spam-math, and human-readable-ocr, return-receipts, and various other methods of spam filtering) ... spam decay is a lot faster than most other forms of spam out there.
... back to your regularly scheduled program ...
HiwTherew,wwNeedwawFr?aw
... and the content may be garbled as well? It sure looks like if this keeps up that people will just be getting blocks of unreadable crap rather than the annoying readable crap they currently get...
How does this corruption occur? Is it all this spam trading that spam sellers gather and resell without bothering to check the content of the spam?
How about those spam databases for sale? I recently saw one that had so much crap at least 20% out of a few hundred thousand were unusable invalid emails right off the bat.
Hopefully for the users of the Internet the spam will kill itself off since there is no centralized spam control aka spam kingpin, combined with the anti-spam mechanisms (such as the spam-math, and human-readable-ocr, return-receipts, and various other methods of spam filtering) ... spam decay is a lot faster than most other forms of spam out there.
... back to your regularly scheduled program ...
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