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No wonder it's called SPAM!

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February 21, 2007, 21:21
<Asa Lovejoy>
No wonder it's called SPAM!
My spam filter intercepted this:Martie gabbles thoughtless solenoid Lolly sheathes few slovenliness
Jorgenson outguns brave abstractness Wurlitzer editorializes misty cameraman

Medan snipes bad monocotyledon Morissa decalcifys envious backlog
Havel weatherizes proud railroading Librium savors cooperative wangler
Stendler omits slow freeholder Gerti chalks tired heater

HUH!?!? Probably sent from Sweden, since the subject line was "Hej," which is "Hi" in Swedish, but most Swedes speak good English. Do the rest of you get this kind of stuff, or is it all just Viagra ads for the women and breast implants for the men? Confused
February 22, 2007, 01:21
Richard English
I get over a hundred every day. There is a bit of software you can get called email tracker, which finds out where any email came from and where you can submit it to if you want to complain. Go here: http://www.emailtrackerpro.com/


Richard English
February 22, 2007, 06:57
zmježd
Do the rest of you get this kind of stuff?

The text is generated randomly in the effort to defeat mail filtering software. It's called word salad. This technique is different from Bayesian poisoning which uses emails with large amounts of legitimate text from public domain works or news service stories. If you are reading your spam, you should make sure that you turn off downloading images, because that is a prime way for spammers to validate an email address, and up your spam receipt.


Ceci n'est pas un seing.
February 22, 2007, 08:56
Caterwauller
Here where I work we have a mail filtering system that collects suspected Spam and gives them to us in a digest several times a day. Once I block an address, it generally gets trashed before this filter picks it up, and sometimes, even if an address is in my Trust list, it will end up in one of those digests (it just LOVES the wordcrafter emails!).

Yesterday, after an update the day before, it put it's own digest into the new digest. It filtered itself. LOL

Gotta love that kind of efficiency.


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February 22, 2007, 17:17
<Asa Lovejoy>
I'd not heard of "word salad," but it's apt!

I only look at spam via my spam filter, which is hosted on my ISP's server, so it never actually gets to my computer. Some of it's pretty funny, some is pathetic, and some is just stupid!

Thanks for the definition!