From: "Caisson" Subject: Re: A small question - Re: There are spies about.......... Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer.turbovision,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: <3a8fabe4$19_1 AT plato DOT netscapeonline DOT co DOT uk> <01c09a4b$1619fb00$ccddebc2 AT default> <96smio$sds$0 AT 216 DOT 155 DOT 0 DOT 50> Message-ID: <01c09b15$6dac49c0$c1ddebc2@default> X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Date: 20 Feb 2001 08:15:22 GMT Lines: 23 NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.235.221.193 X-Trace: 982656922 dreader2.news.xs4all.nl 458 rwieser/194.235.221.193 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Arthur Sowers schreef in artikel <96smio$sds$0 AT 216 DOT 155 DOT 0 DOT 50>... > On 19 Feb 2001, Caisson wrote: > > jbquhz AT safesurfers DOT org schreef in artikel <3a8fabe4$19_1 AT plato DOT netscapeonline DOT co DOT uk>... > > [Snip] > > > ycpygkiyzeejfoiehhoppiqxcbhsyqweflbcqcxkqffygcuhwflzgt > > > > What's this ? It looks like someone just banged his/her keyboard. > > Does it *mean* something, or is it just some rubbish to make > > this message different from all the other messages-with-the- > > same-contents. (aka SPAM) ? > > I think it means something, but I don't know what. A lot of spam seems to > contain a segment of jibberish like this. To me it looks more like an attempt to make every message appear different for Anti-Spam filters that use the sender's name and a check-sum of the contents of the message. The jibberish will throw-off the checksum every time. But if it is some kind of "secret message", could somebody tell me what it's meaning is. Regards, Caisson