[SpamCop-List] Re: spam with no body? What gives?

[Mike Easter]

Maggie's Mom wrote:

> Received: from 12-219-20-54.client.mchsi.com ([12.219.20.54])

> Received: from cpe-069-134-191-202.nc.res.rr.com ([69.134.191.202])

> My PC-cillin spam marker marked it correctly as spam. I have them
> reported via Spam Cop. I just would love to know what is the purpose
> of such a message with no sender, no subject and nothing to say.

Empty and incomplete or otherwise flawed spams generate more discussion
than than they merit, I think;  they aren't more 'important' [or even
interesting, to me] than regular runofthemill spam.  Both of those IPs
are proxy/trojan spamsources.  The mechanism for sending/injecting spam
thru' a proxy system is quite fallible, since it isn't a normal smtp
transaction process -- so one possibility is that the injection pathway
failed while a real spam injection was being attempted.

Others who like to think about or imagine what spammers are thinking
about when or if they /are/ thinking may postulate more 'spammerthink'
oriented suggestions.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin