Hairy One Kenobi wrote:

> "Jim Watt" <jimwatt@aol.no_way> wrote in message
> news:pelhk1totk546jdl9lnec6v55b9q2jjm94@4ax.com...
>> 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)
>

Damn good point.

Imhotep