Text shows something different than what is there.

[Steve Campbell]

Scott Silva wrote:
> on 11/27/2007 2:11 PM Steve Campbell spake the following:
>> Sorry if this has been discussed before. I may have not realized what 
>> was being discussed until I saw it in front of me.
>>
>> We are getting tons of email with different sexual content. When 
>> viewing the source of the email through Thunderbird, a few of the 
>> lines show up like the following:
>>
>> IF YOU WANT TO F wol UC sty K SOMEBODY,
>> F oy U zb CK YOURSELF & SAVE YOUR MONEY!
>>
>> The email when viewed normally through Thunderbird (and probably most 
>> other clients) is different. If you remove all of the lower case 
>> letters and the spaces around them, you'll see what the viewed text 
>> is displaying.
>>
>> Can anyone explain what is going on there and a pretty good way to 
>> block this. The F-word is pretty blatant in these.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Steve Campbell
>>
>>
> If you can post a raw sample somewhere, we could try it and see what 
> existing stuff might hit it.
>
Scott,

Thanks for the reply.

Upon further review of the messages on other machines using other 
browsers, I find some HTML or something using bracketed "span" tags in 
between the letters.

I'm not sure the best way to stop it for now, but at least I have a clue 
as to what's going on.

Steve