"Jim Watt" <jimwatt@aol.no_way> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 22:10:48 GMT, phishee <phishee@sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>
> >What's the purpose of those semi-coherent or blank body e-mails that
> >slip past spam filter's?
>
> generally the purpose is to slip past spam filters and the
> message is in an attached .gif

...or HTML with no associated plain-text.

One that commonly gets through a lot uses SPANs to assemble letter couplets
into words. Impossible to defeat without a (very expensive, in processing
terms) rendition engine.

If only some of these people would employ a fraction of their ingenuity in
building legitimate stuff, the world would be a much better place ;o)

--

Hairy One Kenobi

Disclaimer: the opinions expressed in this opinion do not necessarily
reflect the opinions of the highly-opinionated person expressing the opinion
in the first place. So there!