Wed, 28 Jan 2004

More Surreal SPAM

This is really getting bizarre ... below is an email that showed up this morning, reproduced exactly as I saw it in my client. Incidentially, this was one of the few emails I've received in the last couple of days that wasn't the myDoom worm.

Subject: Re: HC.more tyrannical outrages

manservant death dustbin apices pan
dime hemorrhage schlesinger conic registrable successful transshipped
contralto cosgrove condone aides guile

I wonder what kind of program is used to generate such gibberish? Is it just a straight dictionary type lookup, or is there some list of words specifically designed to defeat the latest adaptive filters? It sure does make content filtering look silly, eh?

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Notes: If you put a <mailto:> link in the URL field your address will not be mangled: this could be a bad idea as your email address could be easily harvested by bots designed for SPAM. The comments field should now format correctly for line feeds and carriage returns: when you hit the 'Enter' or 'Return' keys in your comment it should break to a new line. The text should wrap cleanly. Please let me know if it doesn't. No HTML tags will pass through - entering links seems to be the main cause of comment SPAM. Also, please be sure that Javascript is enabled in your browser before attempting to post a writeback. Sorry for any inconvenience, but this really helps cut down on the amount of comment SPAM I have to deal with.
 
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