On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:24:09 -0800 (PST), tenworld <ten@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>On Dec 15, 10:01 am, Prai Jei <pvstowns...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> tenworld set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time
>> continuum:
>>
>> > Does anyone know the point of the recent trend of Spam that seems to
>> > have meaningless but sytax correct sentences strung together? The
MI5
>> > ones maybe part of this but they seem to be someone with a political
>> > agenda.
>>
>> The latest anti-spamtrap device.
>>
>> Originally there was no such junk on spam messages, but email servers
>> started cribbing at the same message going out to numerous
destinations.
>>
>> Enter the strings of random letters at the ends of the messages, but
then
>> the email servers got more intelligence and knew how to filter out all
the
>> adfasuyfasudtaiusdtfiausdfkern and the spam messages containing them.
>>
>> Then we started getting reasonable-looking "foreign language" words,
but
>> then the email servers got wise to that so the spammists soon found
that
>> their cafohijevo marujonolaseti vikomu didn't get through any more.
>>
>> So currently we get reasonable-looking English, apparently snipped from
some
>> real source but totally irrelevant to the spam. We eagerly await the
>> spamtraps reaching the next level of evolution to combat this.
>> --
>> ?:) Proud to be curly
>>
>> Interchange the alphabetic letter groups to reply
>
>but what is their point? messages from someone needing to get funds
>out of ethiopia i understand, (I use the money I win on European
>lotteries to pay for the fund transfers) but just using up electrons
>space?
No point. Just to prove they can do it, and that they can piss people
off and clog servers...
--
Wes Struebing
Jan. 20, 2009 - the end of an error
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