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Amazing spam

December 31, 2003 18:32:49.282

This has to be some kind of landmark of incomprehensibility - I've gotten spam that

  • has purposely misspelled words
  • has lots of real words in random order in the text
  • has lots of real words in hidden html fields

But now, I've just gotten a spam titled:

indecomposable guideline issuant

What the heck is that supposed to mean?

Update: In my comments, Laurent Bossavit points to Charles Miller's explanation of this sort of thing. It's the spammer in question trying to defeat spam filters, and - in particular - the Bayesian filters that have become popular.

Comments

Laurent Bossavit

[] January 1, 2004 11:26:34.430

They're an attack on Bayesian filters. Charles Miller has an explanation here: http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2003/09/04/bayesian_filtering_the_spam_fights_back

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