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[SC-Help] Re: "No body provided. Check format of submission"

eddie eddie at eddie.web
Wed Dec 8 13:55:03 EST 2004


On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 03:51:42 +0000, Fred the Red Shirt scratched out the
following:

> 
> 
> Jim Carroll wrote:
> 
>> Many of the spam messages that flood my inbox have no "body" per se,
>> just an attachment.
>>
>>
> Many of mine have no body and no attachment.  They look like maybe dumb
> attempts to check the validity of harvested address lists.
> 
> Regardless, I type the word "BLANK." in the body and submit it.
> 
> I do not consider that to be a material alteration of the spam.

I agree - I insert <no body> after a blank line after the last line of
header. I believe even a dot will work.
It is most certainly spam and may even be harassment or some kind of test
mailing. In any case, a legit ISP would want to know about it.

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