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by bell-cot 901 days ago
> Any smart spammer will just...

Spam is all about high-volume/~no-cost delivery of crap. Time spent tweaking the spam - to evade $Defense_1, $Defense_2, etc. - is added cost. Especially if $Defense_n is only used by a few of the prospective victims (folks too savvy or paranoid to be suckered do not count), then tweaking to get around $Defense_n is a losing strategy for the spammer.