Spam’s getting more sophisticated
According to Sharon Machlis (who apparently has no problem in
having is e-mail displayed in a webpage) spam is catching up on
spam filters.
“The most dastardly thing I’ve seen so far,”
Graham-Cumming said, involved words that were printed vertically
within the raw HTML text. The HTML message then used tables to
reassemble the words and display them horizontally again. The
result: Antispam filters didn’t understand that the words in
vertical format were spam, and let the message
through;
On the other hand how many e-mails containing a HTML table that
weren’t spam do you usually get?
From
www.computerworld.com.
