Image spam

[Renee Gehlbach]

Chris Yuzik wrote:
> My impression is that pretty much anything that arrives with an 
> attached GIF these days is image spam. Are you seeing much ham with an 
> attached GIF?
I see plenty of ham w/ attached gifs through one of my servers, but very 
little from others.  Yet another example there being no one standard 
pattern for ham.

> I suppose some people perhaps have their company logo attached to 
> their emails, but would it be better if they just had the appropriate 
> code in their signature to pull the company logo image from their 
> website?
Hmm....  why exactly would this be preferable?  We tend to set email 
clients not to permit the display non-attached images in html messages.  
Thunderbird and Squirrelmail, I believe, even do this by default.  I've 
heard plenty of arguments against allowing email clients to go retrieve 
pictures, do you have arguments for it?

> I would love to do something...anything...to thwart this damned image 
> spam. It's tempting to just strip GIF files out of emails, but then 
> the spam would likely start to arrive as a JPG or PNG.
Do you use Fuzzy OCR?  It's the only way I've found to really target 
image spam.

Renee Gehlbach



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