Spammers finally get round to cycling.

[Simon Mason]

Clearing the usual mix of spam from the inbox today which I usually do by
the subject, I was interested to see a post by the preposterously named
Thaddeus Minor, titled "Cyclist", so I naturally read it. All it said was:

albanian girth hanson aitken chortle pronoun redpoll abuse
liturgy solicit teleprocessing lithography several
electroencephalogram accountant bruno compunction suzuki
fiction koinonia

What's that all about? Presumably so it will get though
blocked key words, but I actually like these as they are a
sort of free quiz. If I see a word that I don't know the
meaning of, I feel the need to find out . So I've learned
that "koinonia" is a "Christian fellowship or communion with
God". I've capitalised "god" here as it's the "real" one,
not the other 9999 false ones ;-)

--
Simon Mason
Anlaby
East Yorkshire.
53°44'N 0°26'WT
http://www.simonmason.karoo.net (http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/)

[Arthur Clune]

Simon Mason <simon@simonmason.karoo.co.uk> wrote:
: albanian girth hanson aitken chortle pronoun redpoll abuse
: liturgy solicit teleprocessing lithography several
: electroencephalogram accountant bruno compunction suzuki
: fiction koinonia

Do you have your email client set to not automatically
download HTML images? (you should BTW).

If you didn't have that set, you would have not seen this
text, just a big

The random text is to try and get round anti-spam programs.

Arthur

--
Arthur Clune http://www.clune.org (http://www.clune.org/) "Technolibertarians make a
philosophy out of a personality defect"
- Paulina Borsook

[Simon Mason]

"Arthur Clune" <ajc22@york.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:c8a5ui$dkp$1@pump1.york.ac.uk...

> Do you have your email client set to not automatically
> download HTML
images?
> (you should BTW).
>
> If you didn't have that set, you would have not seen this
> text, just a big

>
> The random text is to try and get round anti-spam
> programs.

The image was blocked but the text got through.
--
Simon M.

[Arthur Clune]

Simon Mason <simon@simonmason.karoo.co.uk> wrote:

: The image was blocked but the text got through.

That's what you want.

--
Arthur Clune http://www.clune.org (http://www.clune.org/) "Technolibertarians make a
philosophy out of a personality defect"
- Paulina Borsook

[Sean]

"Arthur Clune" <ajc22@york.ac.uk> wrote in message news:<c8a5ui$dkp$1@pump1.york.ac.uk>...
> Simon Mason <simon@simonmason.karoo.co.uk> wrote:
> : albanian girth hanson aitken chortle pronoun redpoll
> : abuse liturgy solicit teleprocessing lithography several
> : electroencephalogram accountant bruno compunction suzuki
> : fiction koinonia
>
> Do you have your email client set to not automatically
> download HTML images? (you should BTW).
>
> If you didn't have that set, you would have not seen this
> text, just a big

>
> The random text is to try and get round anti-spam
> programs.
>
> Arthur

Some koinonias solicit a certain compunction to read
these words.

OT....Do they use software to select the words? My favourite
was 'lethologica' which I found out meant 'not being able to
remember the word you you want to use' or something like
that.........I can't remember. Sean.

[Tony Raven]

"Simon Mason" <simon@simonmason.karoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:BtednaRbNJ2pCjXdSa8jmA@karoo.co.uk...
> Clearing the usual mix of spam from the inbox today which
> I usually do by the subject, I was interested to see a
> post by the preposterously named Thaddeus Minor, titled
> "Cyclist", so I naturally read it. All it said was:
>
> albanian girth hanson aitken chortle pronoun redpoll abuse
> liturgy solicit teleprocessing lithography several
> electroencephalogram accountant bruno compunction suzuki
> fiction koinonia
>
> What's that all about? Presumably so it will get though
> blocked key words, but I actually like these as they are a
> sort of free quiz. If I see a word that I don't know the
> meaning of, I feel the need to find out . So I've learned
> that "koinonia" is a "Christian fellowship or communion
> with God". I've capitalised "god" here as it's the "real"
> one, not the other 9999 false ones ;-)
>

Its an attempt to get round Bayesian e-mail filters by
putting in enough random words to throw the filters off the
scent that its spam. Recently is has gotten so that the
object of the spamming is completely hidden in the
additional text which rather begs the question of who buys
anything from an ad where serious work is needed to spot
what they are trying to sell you.?

Tony

[David Hansen]

On Mon, 17 May 2004 19:56:42 +0100 someone who may be "Tony Raven"
<junk@raven-family.com> wrote this:-

>Its an attempt to get round Bayesian e-mail filters by
>putting in enough random words to throw the filters off the
>scent that its spam.

That's why it makes sense to have two spam filters in
series. It is interesting to see which are caught by one,
the other or both.

--
David Hansen, Edinburgh | PGP email preferred-key number
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government prevents me using the RIP Act 2000.