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		benev on March 15, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Why do people create incomprehensible spam... Are you saying this is decoy spam sent purely to try and confuse my anti-spam system? It's an interesting idea.

what_the_frell on March 15, 2013 [–]

Does your comment system strip out HTML tags and CSS? I used to work for an anti-spam company, and I'd see tons of those messages. It looks like garbage when you view the raw text, but with a bunch of font-tags everywhere alternating colours or floating things around, you end up with a message.

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