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From: Microsoft Outlook Express Team <oe5@aol.com>
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Subject: Welcome to Outlook Express 5

These days, anyone who doesn't double-check headers on stuff like this is really asking for it. (Yes, there was a virus attached. I use pine, though, not Outlook Express, so I don't have to care.)

Oh, and the MIME settings were wrong for the HTML message body.

Spam Rule Number One

Date: 2003-07-18 12:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tangerinpenguin.livejournal.com
If you can send out thousands of copies for free, a vanishingly small percentage of "successes" pays for the strategy.

[And the MIME settings may have been intentional - there have been some exploits that mess with the encodings to try and drive a buffer overrun.]

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