__/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Wednesday 14 February 2007 23:17 \__
> What I notice is that maybe 10% of the spam I receive has the time
> stamp badly off, by more than 1 day, sometimes off by years. These
> are obviously Windows zombies whose clock is dead, spewing out spam
> with bad time stamps. Obviously I could filter on these, but haven't
> bothered yet.
I have always believed that this was intended to give them more visibility
(set them apart from the group of unread messages). Alternatively, this
could be a bad script or a computer whose infection affected the system at a
profound level.
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