[tagname] Ten Interesting News of the Day: The Spam Bug

Thursday, January 25, 2007

The Spam Bug

It depends on who is doing the labeling, because spammers are business people who have to sell to survive. The only exception is most of the recipients of their sales pitch could be the wrong prospects, hence are responsible for all the accusation. The reason why it is so is the email service providers have a means of telling whether an email is sent by a software or by a human being and when the system CAPTCHA that stands for Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart finds out that the email has not originated from a human sender, it will label it as a junk mail making the deleting process for the recipient easy and can get rid of it with a click of a button.

Now the spammers or those who have to sell to make a living came up with a trick o circumvent this tough system. How are they doing it? Send images where the text should be imbedded in the images, because images alone cannot say everything, but they relay enough message, and the system cannot work with images because images do not have what this system is programmed to sniff, such as dollar signs. So, the war between those who are trying to make a living by selling and those who will be caught in the middle will continue until those in charge come up with another system to keep the inboxes from filling up.

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