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March 9, 2004

Spamtastic

Can someone explain to me the theory behind sending spam email with subjects reading "bleat concretion egotist transit miracle" and "savagery checkmate centipede invent fed"? I'm baffled.

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They're messages from other planets. We just need to figure out how to unscramble the code.

Seriously? Well, here is where I unveil the geek inside me...

Random subline generators for spam delivery systems are used in instances where the host or recipient mail server won't accept messages without sublines. Sometimes, there is a minimum character count in the subline or a minimum character count in the message. That's what those random word subject lines are and sometimes what those random words in the body of message are.

Since most spam filters now filter out words, the spam generators now purposely misspell words in order to get them past the filters... sneaky bastards eh?

I got a few of those too! Interesting.

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