Spamcop.net <\/a>to report it all, so I feel like I’m at least doing something about the problem. And usually that’s the end of it.<\/p>\nBut I’ve run across a little bit that was so clever, I had to pass it on. It probably even has applicability on my blog.<\/p>\n
Many spam filters look for key words or phrases — parts of the anatomy (or slang terms thereof), activities one does with those parts (or slang terms there of), etc. <\/p>\n
But what’s sought after is what’s coded in the e-mail, not what’s displayed. And if you are using HTML mail, then you can code something like:<\/p>\n
Fre<!– howdy –>e Por<!– pardner –>n!<\/font><\/p>\nOn the screen it will read as an offer for Free Porn!<\/font><\/b>, but a spam filter won’t sense it (any more than, hopefully, a web site filter will catch that phrase in my blog) because the <!– –><\/b> stuff is treated as a comment <\/i>— it doesn’t display, but it breaks up the Naughty Words in the code, so it isn’t seen.<\/p>\nI just thought that was rather clever. In a fiendlishly sleazy sort of way. And it potentially lets me put terms up on the screen here that would raise flags going through language filters. <\/p>\n
I don’t know how it would affect Google, as another example, but that’s a good question, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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