George
Tue Dec 23 20:08:20 CST 2003
Well let me hazard a guess why the spammers are doing this.
Have you ver heard of children going out in the wee hours in the morning =
overturning mailboxes and letting the dog out? So we might ask, "why =
did they do that? What purpose did it serve?"
Basically the answer to this is that crimnals start out small and work =
themselves up to more exciting crimes like treason and murder. But they =
got to start somewhere right?
Actually I'm just fooling around. But the answer I believe is, "Because =
they can." It is likly a result of a misconfigured spam machine. So =
they are going to do it until they get it right. So don't be too =
disappointed by the empty messages you'll get bona fide spam in a little =
bit. Promise.
Finally there WAS a very easy way to get these empty messages sent to =
the delete folder. Basically you use VBA and test the "length" of =
received mailitems. If Len(mailitem) =3D 0 delete. See ez as pie. =
Unfortunately due to the infinite wisdom of Microsoft Corporation and =
spammers\virus writers to make sure you have a happy day, the ability to =
do this with VBA in Outlook 2003 has been squelched. Oh well.
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George Hester
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"jan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message =
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> I have been recently receiving empty spam messages. There=20
> is nothing in From, To, and Subject lines, and the body is=20
> empty as well. I can see the return path, etc, under=20
> Options, but they do not reveal anything interesting.=20
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> I am puzzled: Does anybody know what is the purpose of=20
> these messages? Is it just checking if my address is=20
> valid? Also, any hints on how to set my spam filtering to=20
> get rid of them (I use Outlook 2003 built in filtering and=20
> I just love it).
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> Thank you
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