Sometime around Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:47:03 +0800, it may be that W B
Hacker wrote:
> - Second, you may be scanning *huge* messages and/or attachments.
> Spammers rarely send large messages, simply becasue it take their
> servers/zombies too long on each connection and they are impatient
> and greedy, and need to hit zillions of WinVictims to find enough
> gullible ones with money.
Well, spammers will resort to whatever tactics gets their messages
through. Looking at :-
http://zonky.org/notes/spam-report/spam-avsize.png
It seems to be that spam sizes are slowly increasing over time. Mostly
at present to get around text scanning blocks by including GIFs with
their message inside.
--
Mike Meredith, Senior Informatics Officer
University of Portsmouth: Hostmaster, Postmaster and Security
A: Because top quoting results in an unnatural ordering of text.
Q: Why is top quoting (adding your reply at the top) bad ?
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