Theresa writes: I, too, have been getting more spam in the last four months. I get those with a bunch of word strung together in a meaningless mumbo jumbo. I also get ones inviting a peek at sites I wouldn¹t go near but those often contain words the filter is supposed to catch but doesn¹t because they place a dot in the middle of the word (wor.d). > Someone must've figured out a new way to beat spam filters. On GMail I've > now had 3 or 4 spam total in the past week that made it past the filters... > on a normal day my account will receive OVER 50 but ALL of them end up in > the spam folder (GMail has stunning spam filters). The other thing that's > surprising is that it's also extremely rare for legit mail to end up in the > spam folder. > > Eric. > > >> >From: Hawk <taylorc547@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >Reply-To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >To: <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >Subject: [muglo] spam >> >Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:38:54 -0500 >> > >> >Just curious, I've had a huge increase in spam the past month. Actually >> >maybe three weeks. I usually get three or four a day. Now I'm getting >> >upwards of 20. I'm also curious about the lengthy spam messages that are >> >nothing more than a collection of words arranged in paras that don't say or >> >mean a thing. Is there some purpose to them? Jim >> > >> >----------------------------------------------------------- >> > For information about MUGLO: http://www.freewebs.com/muglo >> >----------------------------------------------------------- > > _________________________________________________________________ > Say hello to the next generation of Search. Live Search ? try it now. > http://www.live.com/?mkt=en-ca > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > For information about MUGLO: http://www.freewebs.com/muglo > ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- For information about MUGLO: http://www.freewebs.com/muglo -----------------------------------------------------------