[ILUG] [OT] a spammer who ``knows'' Unicode?

[Justin Mason]

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Brian Foster writes:
>   | From: jm at jmason.org (Justin Mason)
>   | Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:28:09 -0800
>   | 
>   |[ ... ] See jgc's "Spammer's Compendium" doc [ ... ]
> 
>  thanks for the pointer!  URL is http://www.jgc.org/tsc/
>  as an aside, this BiDi trick happens to be a new entry,
>  dated about a month ago, 14-Feb-2005.
> 
>  dragging this back to Linux, to-date my (non-exhaustive
>  non-systematic) trials have found only(!?) Opera displays
>  the BiDi'ed spam correctly (both HTML and pure UTF-8 text
>  versions); Firefox hasn't a clew; Konqueor almost gets it
>  right but inserts “unknown char” glyphs; mlterm(1) is
>  similar to Konqueor but inserts spaces (this one surprised
>  me since `mlterm' claims it supports BiDi); and Konsole
>  hasn't a clew.  all on SUSE 9.1 in a UTF-8 locale.

well, exmh hates it too ;)

Interestingly, most of the Windows and Mac MUAs don't support
half of those tricks either.  It's not clear exactly what the
spammers think they're doing.   It doesn't seem to matter,
as people still click on the links anyway ;)

- --j.
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