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To: "Hess, Mtodd, /mth" <mth@Ingersoll.com>
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Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Graphics-only spam?
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"Hess, Mtodd, /mth" said:

> I hate to bring this up, but I see more and more spams that contain very
> little, if any, text.  Instead, most of the spam text is in a graphic image.
> How will we be able to detect those as spam?  OCR?

or, alternatively, giveaway patterns in the HTML?  That's what's happening
with most obfuscating techniques the spammers are trying -- they become
a very reliable sign of spam in themselves!

--j.


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