On 10 Jul 2007 at 00:59:34 +0100, "Andrew Gray" shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
The one that always amazes me is how many legal firms think it's helpful to send a raw .doc or .pdf file without even putting a sentence in the email to say what it's about... very irritating by the tenth time around.
Given that I've been getting a whole rash of spam lately that consists of unexplained PDF attachments (something that seems to get right through Bayesian spam filters because there are no plaintext keywords to filter on), any such things are likely to be trashed unopened by me.
On 10/07/07, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
On 10 Jul 2007 at 00:59:34 +0100, "Andrew Gray" shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
The one that always amazes me is how many legal firms think it's helpful to send a raw .doc or .pdf file without even putting a sentence in the email to say what it's about... very irritating by the tenth time around.
Given that I've been getting a whole rash of spam lately that consists of unexplained PDF attachments (something that seems to get right through Bayesian spam filters because there are no plaintext keywords to filter on), any such things are likely to be trashed unopened by me.
There's usually a lengthy signature (name, contact details, name of the firm, sixteen lines of "if you receive this by accident then destroy your computer and sterilise your children", etc, which helps distinguish it from random junk. 'Course, if someone is willing to fake those... actually, that's a pretty cunning idea.
On 7/10/07, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
On 10 Jul 2007 at 00:59:34 +0100, "Andrew Gray" shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
The one that always amazes me is how many legal firms think it's helpful to send a raw .doc or .pdf file without even putting a sentence in the email to say what it's about... very irritating by the tenth time around.
Given that I've been getting a whole rash of spam lately that consists of unexplained PDF attachments (something that seems to get right through Bayesian spam filters because there are no plaintext keywords to filter on), any such things are likely to be trashed unopened by me.
My Bayesian filter very quickly decided that "Attachment name ending in .pdf" is a sure sign of spam.