September 19, 2003

Finnegans Wake II: Rise of the Machines

Posted by Ted

I just got spam for generic Viagra that began with this salutation:

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I’d imagine that it’s a device to get through the fearsome AOL spam guards, but it’s almost beautiful in its way.

Posted on September 19, 2003 03:10 PM UTC
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It’s more likely to be trying to overwhelm so-called “Bayesian” filters that rate emails by looking at the individual words. I get a number of these every day, although none have snuck past spambayes yet.

Posted by anthony baxter · September 19, 2003 04:55 PM

Coincidental stateroom idiotic:

http://joyce.eng.yale.edu/~bt/school/report.cgi/puke/honolulu/tooth/avid.htm

Bloater dew:

http://www.stresswatchscotland.com/scrutinize.html

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http://www.cs.unc.edu/~weiss/COMP114/scramDict.txt

Posted by Dell Adams · September 20, 2003 02:30 AM

Oho — viagra, “rise” of the machines — yes, those on the left DO have a sense of humor!

Posted by Beldar · September 20, 2003 10:57 AM

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Posted by Nabakov · September 22, 2003 02:47 PM

Perhaps it was lost in translation?

“Mr. James, what did you mean when you wrote bad clown making like super American car racers, I would make them sweat, War War?”

Posted by Terry · September 22, 2003 06:56 PM
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