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It's a well-known spamming technique - try to get past Bayesian filters by putting in random text. Well, every day I skim through my spam trap folder where my Bayesian filter puts everything it thinks is spam, just in case there are any false positives (and to look for religious ones). Well, the technique didn't work as I found a really bizarre message in there. The spammer had used some sort of travesty generator to produce the bogus text, but he must have primed it with some very interesting material indeed. The result, well at first I thought it was QuePirate back to tell us of his latest discoveries. The non-functioning attachment, entitled Christian.gif, merely enhanced that impression
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1: Posted by: Val Dobson | September 10, 2006 2:59 PM
I get lots of spam like that. For instance, here's one from this morning:
"The world were going down into, thekind of hate-world, slogan-world.
And the seats of all the chairs weredusty.
When I look back I realize that my active life, if I ever had one,ended when I was sixteen. What really gets me down is the dreary attitude towards life thatit implies. Somedays I know its impossible, other days I know its inevitable.
It was allin the sound of the little lecturers voice. The coloured shirts, the barbedwire, the rubber truncheons. Mrs Wheeler is a widow, and I gather shes gotvery bitter ideas about the male sex.
Its a picture ofhimself smashing peoples faces in with a spanner. And the seats of all the chairs weredusty. Why theyrelike that, how they get like that, whether theyre doing it onpurpose."
It goes onandonandon like that for many more paragraphs - seems to be all from th same piece of writing, though disconnected. Maybe it's taken from somebody's novel-writing project?
It ends with the the rather splendid line "The girls brows shot down for the second time, like a pair ofsash-windows."
2: Posted by: Feòrag | September 10, 2006 7:32 PM
Perhaps they're trawling LiveJournal for text?
3: Posted by: Red Wolf | September 11, 2006 4:35 AM
I think they've been trawling Project Gutenburg or the Amazon sample library.
The first lump of quotes are culled, in no particular order, from Coming Up For Air by George Orwell.
The girls brows shot down for the second time, like a pair of sash-windows
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