Hello fellow netizens.<\/p>\n
Okay, so a piece of spam made it through my filters today (fyi: during the day or two that I had no mail at all, and was trying to figure out what the heck was going on, I turned off my filter and started getting 10-20 a day instead of the 2-3 a week I’m used to, so I guess my filters are working, once properly configured), and it was this huge graphic trying to sell me something. No big shock there, but what I’ve been noticing more and more in spam is the tendency for the spammers to add entire words and paragraphs to their messages in order to pad them (and maybe allow some through based on content that would “overrule” the filters). Usually it’s just monkey-poundings in order to make each email unique in some way, so that they can’t be bulk deleted easily.<\/p>\n
In this particular message, the following gibberish was added:<\/p>\n
addictions boulevards midrange immaculately sating cowhide methodicalness craziness examiner imitated pop sans huddle crossword porphyry tallness seasonable achievable possible teemed identifies posit sculpt bernardino popularly accompanist hypocycloid
\npoet saturates schoolmaster positives hour saunter evictions braze etymology asher crackle technical tarry 9th searched bogs bolshevist tentatively humble angles bothersome coverall add covary terrorizing bookkeep bowstring
\ntalon mention eureka boil evaporating exercisable hub postulate midscale medicate scare counsels hyperbolic counteracted boner plower pourer playground athenian scalable brandish admissible ajax poplin botulin schelling exposition
\ncoverlet posters credulity schematic bravado acreage armenia terrapin euphemisms husband seat alpert crag micro expels poked hybrid menu adduct messing creates exclaimed pose televising mercurial excursus annalen
\ncountrify exceptional boss polyhedron bowstring cozen horticulture aristotle exponentially icosahedron scholastically bluegrass mauve metallizations plead poled exalts scares ignorance exhortations craved searches accountable accountably expeditiously alfred mathematic
\nhungering methodology admiring schizoid accustoming counterargument scuba anglophobia covertly almaden course audrey alabamian scrupulous melon brasses scurvy excavate cowpox merciless saner tankers adamson armco horrid accurateness tarantara\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nIn some deeply disturbing way, it’s almost pretty.<\/p>\n
Anybody else seen stuff like this? The junk in this message was originally white (on white background), so sometimes you have to go look.<\/p>\n
So yeah, that’s all I have to say.<\/p>\n
Word, nords.<\/p>\n