Jargons of Info Tech industry

[Mike Meyer]

Roedy Green <my_email_is_posted_on_my_website at munged.invalid> writes:
> On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 06:32:07 -0400, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote
> or quoted :
>>Formatted spam can include pictures of words. That's a common spam
>>tactic - send a multipart/alternative with a text part that look like
>>a letter from aunt jane - and mention that you're sending a
>>picture. The picture part is basically a jpeg of a flyer for the spam
>>companies product.
> Such a jpg would have a lot more sharp edges than a usual photo. Also
> you tend to have areas of just two colours. Some edge detecting
> software might have a go at it.

It's probably possible. No one has done it yet.

> However, my rule of thumb is I would not accept photos from the
> general public, only from a subset of my correspondendents.  That
> makes a photo a strong spam indicator.

But you also said (in <3g3rk1lv2dhcerqcn3hambu6p4l6mn70gq at 4ax.com>):

> Censoring content and style is none of our business.

Spam is all about censoring content. But you're proposing censoring
style to deal with pictures of words.

      <mike
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