And in the right corner

HB!RightCorner!Plain

  18 June 2003

Description

Adding a legitimate but odd word at the far right of the subject line (typically preceded with lots of spaces and tabs). The word is design to poison a Bayesian filter and alter the spam's hash value.

Submitted by Gary Robinson.

Example

Subject: FEATURED IN MAJOR MAGAZINES         algorithmic

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