[olug] ASCII art spam

Obi-Wan obiwan at jedi.com
Tue May 18 20:45:25 UTC 2010


Wow.  Spammers are pulling out all the stops to avoid detection.
I just got this one that uses cutting edge technology to convey
its message:

Forwarded message:
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
> <style></style>
> </head>
> <body>
> <span style="font-size: 3pt">all by all and deep by deep
> <strong>
> <pre>   
> 88888   888888   88   88  88888    88888  88888888   88888  888888   8888888
> 88  88  88   88  88   88 88   88  88   88    88     88   88 88   88  88 
> 88   88 88   88  88   88 88       88         88     88   88 88   88  88
> 88   88 888888   88   88 88        88888     88     88   88 888888   888888
> 88   88 88 88    88   88 88  888       88    88     88   88 88 88    88    
> 88  88  88  88   88   88 88   88  88   88    88     88   88 88  88   88
> 88888   88   88   88888   88888    88888     88      88888  88   88  8888888
> 
>          88
> 88888         888888  888888   88888   88   88 88   88 88888888
> 88  88   88  88      88       88   88  88   88 888  88    88  
> 88   88  88  88      88       88   88  88   88 8888 88    88  
> 88   88  88   88888  88       88   88  88   88 8888888    88 
> 88   88  88       88 88       88   88  88   88 88 8888    88 
> 88  88   88       88 88       88   88  88   88 88  888    88 
> 88888    88  888888   888888   88888    88888  88   88    88 
> </pre>
> </strong>
> or the introduction</span><a href='http://*****'>http://*****</a><span style="font-size: 2pt">We reserve the right
> </span>
> </body>
> </html>
> 


-- 
Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth                             obiwan at jedi.com
   The stuff of earth competes for the allegiance I owe only to the
     Giver of all good things, so if I stand, let me stand on the
       promise that You will pull me through.  -- Rich Mullins



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