The person who decided that HTML was a good format for email deserves to be shot by a firing squad of about a million persons armed with air rifles (or B-B guns, as I believe they say in the USA). Want to DDoS someone's web server by spamming? Easy! Just include the following approximately 400 times per spam.

<IFRAME SRC="http://www.nutters.org/log" WIDTH=100% HEIGHT=5 FRAMEBORDER=0 SCROLLING=no></IFRAME>

In their latest mutation, our spam-kiddies are now using the Windows message protocol to put up alerts on the screens of unsuspecting Windows users. These contain a dire warning that your computer has been compromised, and you should contact tech support -- on my home or mobile numbers. (My thanks to the person who submitted this in my feedback box.)

Here's another tactic they're trying. Since they seem to have figured out that my mail server is locked down pretty hard, they've taken to forging an entire message that is supposed to have originated in my system, and then they forward that to some poor random Joe as a complaint! Here's an example I let bounce in earlier. Bear in mind that this is the body of the message I'm posting here.

They're trying a new tactic, by the look of it. I've seen a whole bunch of bounces come in -- primarily from .au domains -- which contain the following key bit.

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Hi, folks. This spamming problem looks like it's not going away any time soon, so I'm creating this forum for people to discuss matters. I'll link to it from my home page, showing the latest additions, since my home page has turned into war-room-central.