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I get spam like the rest, and have to ask, what's with the nonsensical
content? I got one today reading:

"New porpoise as a pit cleans about the quantum linguist, Purportedly
rotting, the acorn dresses as explorer. The car is a cheesy lion, for
heaps speculate unfortunately, And what is an answer, but a poor
canister? The cheese is an upset cheese, for failures live undeniably,
The plant is an American season, for cultures mark shortly, Stomach
requests an unreal object.

lonely man: suspensory virtuality paramorphism linolein philocynicism
aculeata "

Now, I may be watching too much Sue Thomas FBI, but I see some kind of
terrorist message in this thing, and I'm itching for a translation.
Any Sherlock Holmes wanna-be out there care to translate this threat?

On Thu, 20 May 2004 05:28:40 -0700, jmev7 wrote:

> I get spam like the rest, and have to ask, what's with the nonsensical
> content? I got one today reading:
>
> "New porpoise as a pit cleans about the quantum linguist, Purportedly
> rotting, the acorn dresses as explorer. The car is a cheesy lion, for
> heaps speculate unfortunately, And what is an answer, but a poor
> canister? The cheese is an upset cheese, for failures live undeniably,
> The plant is an American season, for cultures mark shortly, Stomach
> requests an unreal object.
>
> lonely man: suspensory virtuality paramorphism linolein philocynicism
> aculeata "
>
> Now, I may be watching too much Sue Thomas FBI, but I see some kind of
> terrorist message in this thing, and I'm itching for a translation.
> Any Sherlock Holmes wanna-be out there care to translate this threat?

Its an attempt to get around Bayesian spam filters.
These filters work by rating words according to there spamminess, and then
deciding on how likely it is for a whole mail to be spam. The filter is
trained - the user tells it what mails are spam and what are genuine and
it uses this to keep its own spam ratings for words it has encountered.
The spammers are now sticking in unusual words to try to fool the spam
filter, hoping that they can decrease how spammy the filter decides the
spam is. Its not very effective with a well trained filter, and it makes
the spammers write utter gibberish.

"jmev7" <> wrote in message
news: om...
> I get spam like the rest, and have to ask, what's with the nonsensical
> content? I got one today reading:
>
<snipped>

And you actually OPEN that crap? What about Safe Hex? Get a clue...opening
spam is one of the worst computing decisions you could possibly make!

(Duh!)

Actually, I open it with an online reader that can't run code, and
dump it if I have to think too hard to see what's being said. Thus I
didn't have to wait for someone "smarter" than I give me the clue, but
thanks for the advice.



"Toolman Tim" <> wrote in message news:<>...
> "jmev7" <> wrote in message
> news: om...
> > I get spam like the rest, and have to ask, what's with the nonsensical
> > content? I got one today reading:
> >
> <snipped>
>
> And you actually OPEN that crap? What about Safe Hex? Get a clue...opening
> spam is one of the worst computing decisions you could possibly make!
>
> (Duh!)