[_] Blank Emails
Christian Wach
needle at haystack.co.uk
Tue Aug 1 11:53:08 BST 2006
On 1 Aug 2006, at 09:11, Stewart Smith wrote:
> Is anyone else receiving completely blank emails occassionally?
> Nothing in
> To, From, CC, Subject, or Body text.
Yup, dozens per day.
> Any idea what they are?
I wondered if they were spam designed to screw with spam filters in
some way,
perhaps by messing with the weighting given to the content of certain
header
attributes. Or something. Incompetent spammers sounds more plausible
though.
> Is anyone else receiving completely blank emails occassionally?
> Nothing in
> To, From, CC, Subject, or Body text.
Yup, dozens per day.
> Any idea what they are?
I wondered if they were spam designed to screw with spam filters in
some way,
perhaps by messing with the weighting given to the content of certain
header
attributes. Or something. Incompetent spammers sounds more plausible
though.