Sorry - yes -jumped to a conclusion - but I have not, as yet, had the type I
think you are describing - all my pharmacy have been in 'gif style -
coloured text on coloured background.
The same with the 'stock' ones.
What will those 'barstewards' think of next in their spams.
Antioch


"C. Roy Blye" wrote in message
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Hi Antioch,

Scroll back through my dialog with Bruce Hagen, and you will see that in
this case it is an HTML spam, not a .gif spam. What is interesting is that
the spammer apparently used a technique in which the text portion of the
multi-part message is munged (thus camouflaging the text and avoiding
detection by my message rule), and then "un-munged" using some fancy
style applications in the HTML portion. So, for example, what looks like
the word "PHARMACY" to the reader of the spam message, looks something
like "PnHfARdMvACwY" to the message rule detector program. Dirty tricks!
And they think I'm gonna actually BUY something from them??

Roy


"antioch" wrote in message
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"C. Roy Blye" wrote in message
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Hello,

I get approximately 6.23 x 10^23 spams every day with the word
"PHARMACY" in the body text, so being a smart guy, I created a message
rule to kick those messages into the Delete folder. Problem is, it
hasn't been working. To make matters more mysterious, when I send MYSELF
a test message with the word "pharmacy" in the body text, it winds up in
the delete folder as it should.

Anybody know what gives?

Thanks,
Roy



Hi Roy
These .gif type spams are like a picture and so message rules cannot read
any text in them. Most come with a coloured background and coloured
lettering.
See if your ISP can stop these for you in your Mail Box.
ISPs are slowly starting to offer spam blocking, but not all can block
these .gif type.
If they do you may need to go into the Mail Box every 7 days or so and
check that there are no genuine emails caught in there. Most ISPs that
provide this service, auto-delete on a 7 day cycle.
There is a very long winded message rule that I have read does stop
them - what you do is set the message rule to block anything that does
NOT contain a letter of the alphabet i.e. 26 rules. ;-(
Rgds
Antioch