[Gllug] British Postal Codes

[Doug Winter]

On Fri 08 Aug Tethys wrote:
> Nope. Looks like a genuine question to me. However, I've noticed an
> increase in useless spam of late. No, I mean *really* useless. More
> so than normal spam. I've been getting some that just consist of
> a random bunch of words (in HTML, or course). It's like someone's
> written a program to pick random lines from /usr/share/dict/words,
> and stick them in an email to me. The most perplexing thing is that
> there's no breast/penis enlargement, investment opportuntiy, access
> to sex sites or reinforced conrete that I'm meant to be buying. I'm
> confused as to how they expect to get money out of mailing me, when
> they don't even provide contact details...
> 
> Anyone else seen this?

Yep.  The best theory I've heard is that they are testing and/or
breaking spam filters.  Seems remarkably prescient of the evil spamXors,
but maybe some of them are smart.

Does seem difficult to see wtf else they could be - the html is clean
apart from the random words...

d.

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6973E2CF print 2C95 66AD 1596 37D2 41FC  609F 76C0 A4EC 6973 E2CF
"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
     --G.K. Chesterton 
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