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Spammer crosses the D'oche Limit (Stupidity NonEvent Horizon) once more

Not entirely sure what to make of this, but I suppose it’s better than 4500 messages in one day telling me how good something called “Software 3000” is (if you see anything called that, please hit it with a sledge for me. repeatedly.) — the original message is of course utterly bereft of MIME types or charsets:

Date: 17:07:08 Sun 14-Aug-2005 +0800
From: "Roselyn Roe" <Roselyn@fxpal.com>
To: "Calogera Petty" <susich@one.of.my.domains>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL /d/a9.txt was not found on this server.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.0.54 (Fedora) Server at mega5.valnews.org Port 80</address>
</body></html>

Comments

skribe said…
Have you scored any blog comment spammers yet? They write a seemingly 'normal' blog comment (albeit a little bizarre) and add a line and link saying 'oh btw, I have a modelling|hip-hop|car tools blog/site, check it out'.
15 August, 2005 19:24
Leon RJ Brooks said…
They didn’t even try for normal. The spam looked pretty much like email spam, sans obfuscation.
31 August, 2005 23:44
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