Steve Friedl's Weblog

It's not new, it's retro-spam. People used to post messages like this all the time; sometimes for fun, sometimes to avoid word filters. This is pre-internet stuff. Systems that could only support one or two users at a time...

Some people still use it for .sig lines.

Heck it was the first way that porn used to get sent around...

There is a way to stop line-breaks from happening in MT (all the way at the bottom, convert line..), but that would blow your style's margins badly from the looks of it.


Otherwise, its very unfortunate that we still have spammers advertising (however diverse in tactics)..sometimes, I wish we would all follow the money trails and give some companies a good axing.

Or some people. But the problem is inflated now beyond imagination now, due to people who are make spam a lucrative business, and a problem for the rest of us.

Gary: it's new in the sense that I've not seen spam do this before. Of course all UNIX old-timers have played with the "banner" command, but this is the first time I've seen it used to dodge filters.

David: MT's "no line breaks" didn't do any good on this text - I've used it before and was surprised that it wasn't helpful here. I guess I ought look into it.