wonderful! ...but what is a gnocchi? oh, ok.
whoah! my first post since march!
Somehow, incredibly appropriate.
Now I feel the urge to send this URL to everyone in a mass email, I wonder why?
haha. i diggit.
I'm probably revealing too much of my un-geekiness (and thus, making myself paradoxically uncool?), but could someone explain to me what the deal is with those spams I keep getting that are just streams of unrelated and often obscure words? If my work proxy didn't block my access to my webmail, I'd give an example. Sometimes there will be a nonsensical vocabulary word on the end of a subject line too, along the lines of:
R U 2 Sm@LL N D C0CK? hegemony
Seriously, what the hell?
Sometimes there will be a nonsensical vocabulary word on the end of a subject line too, along the lines of:
That's an attempt to evade spam filters.
Huh. I thought the filters just looked for "negative" keywords (cock, viagra, paraplegic sluts), not "positive" ones (hegemony, hermeneutics, antidisestablishmentarism).
That's an attempt to evade spam filters.
Okay, but I'm still in the dark about the messages that seem to be just strings of nonsensical words. That is, spam without the sales pitch. Wha?
They're probably along the same lines of the spam I've gotten on occasion that say "Put your advertising message here." ie. the idiot spammer forgot to fill out the form before pushing send.
Or it's possible that there's a bug attached and they're just scanning for valid addresses.
Fantastic post. It reminds me a lot of the literalism that was used so effectively in the movie Airplane!
Surely, I cannot be claiming that the shit has hit the fan.
'm still in the dark about the messages that seem to be just strings of nonsensical words. That is, spam without the sales pitch. Wha?
They're trying to poison your spam filter. You see, they send you a spam with a bunch of ordinary words in it that might be in your ham, you mark it as spam, your spam filter starts identifying ham as spam, you stop using it. Et voila.
Surely, I cannot be claiming that the shit has hit the fan
And stop calling me Shirley.
Plus you know there's some spammer squatting in a basement sending out emails with subject lines like "lugubrious salutory ephemeral lucidity llama yar I doth spy a pirate on the willy sham!" while he pyramids his fingers and says, "It's jsut crazy enough to work." I mean, I would open that email, wouldn't you?
Got something from "Rocky23Laxative@aol.com" the other day, just had to open that.
This is so true.