waving android

I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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A new spam attack?

June 9th, 2005

I’m starting to wonder if spammers are starting to deliberately send malformed emails in the hopes that mail clients (like Mail.app) will fail to run rules, including “send to Junk”, if the message can’t be parsed. I’ve been getting a lot of emails with high-ascii Subjects and Froms of late, incorrectly encoded (made only worse by DSPAM, which seems to create more trouble when it encounters character encoding trouble).

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