full-disclosure - weird worm ?

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From: joris at digitaldefense.be (Joris De Donder)
Subject: weird worm ?

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>
>
> Anyone got a clue what this is? There are no attachments to these mails, but
> they keep coming in at a rate of about 1-2 per day, from different sources,
> nobody I know really.

Could be an attempt to 'poison' Bayesian filters. If people identify
these messages as spam and use them to train their Bayesian filters,
more and more 'good'/'normal' words will get a high spamvalue
resulting in a higer rate of false positives.

Or maybe it was an attempt to bypass Bayesian filters and the spammer
just forgot to include an url.

Joris