[Corpora-List] Auto-generation and how to spot it

[Alexandre Rafalovitch]

I have seen the spam server to send an email and then send a 'reply'
to that message. The reasoning here I think that mail agent may let
through a message that is a reply to something user might be involved
in.

But I haven't seen SPAM email quoting you yet. Now that I think of it,
it might actually be possible, but I am not explaining how on a public
mailing list.

Regards,
   Alex.

On 11/13/06, Diana Maynard <d.maynard at dcs.shef.ac.uk> wrote:
> In general I've noticed that the subject header bears no correlation at
> all to the email content, which could be a useful indicator. Although of
> course, genuine emails often suffer from this problem when people reply
> to messages and gradually change tack without changing the subject
> header. In this case though, you generally get some pasting of the
> message to which they're replying (I've never yet seen that on a spam
> mail - I assumed because the content of the spam is pasted from a web
> corpus rather than an email corpus).
> Diana