full-disclosure - weird worm ?

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From: roy at rant-central.com (roy@...t-central.com)
Subject: weird worm ?

On Tuesday 30 December 2003 01:33 pm, Discini, Sonny wrote:
> Yes, I have seen similar e-mails and yes, this appears to be word list
> probes to see what will and will not pass through your filter. 

I don't think so.  The examples I've seen here have been nothing but a string 
of nonsense words, with no link or web bug.  A probe has to have some way of 
reporting success/failure, and I don't know many systems that bounce spam 
filter failures. They're much more likely to be attempts to poison Bayesian 
filters.

> This also explains why the e-mail is coming from random
> sources. If it came from a real address, they know that any reasonable
> admin would add the domain to their block list.

That much makes sense.