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Message-ID: <20040225201633.GA22426@uriel.eclipsed.net>
From: gr at eclipsed.net (gabriel rosenkoetter)
Subject: Re: Empty emails?

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 06:36:03AM -0700, James Lay wrote:
> Anyone else seeing a lot of these?
[...]
> That's it....no subject....no nuffin...been seeing a boatload lately.

These are frequently an attempt to exploit SpamAssassin's autolearn
feature. (Send a bunch of these through with nothing that SA's rules
can match, autolearn will generate a default decrement for that
sender address, then they hammer spam through for a bit. Rinse,
repeat.)

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@...ipsed.net
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