Sunday, 21 November, 2004

Spam Poetry Now I get a ton of spam in my email. And little good it does me. By and large I see it as a time wasting distraction. I am regarded by friends and co-workers as uncharitable of soul, if not entirely misanthropic. I don't understand why people think spelling words wrong in the subject line is going to make me feel better about their product: "ge,t kheap prescripshun medz he-rre!" Oh yeah, that beats my Kaiser health plan hands down, wrap em up, I'm sold. Lately I've been noticing more of these planitive (plantif) messages contain amounts of random filler in the body. Since I'm not daft enough to actually view email message as html, but only as text - I see this; though usually they have been set to a nonscale font size. Or more often set to the same color as the page and intended invisable. I am aware of the practice of dumping buzzwords into html documents so that any google search will bring your page up, soggy flotsum bobbing along among genuinely useful pages, but this is email. And these didn't exactly seem like buzzwords. I suppose they do it to keep the text to images and urls ratio balanced so that spam assassin doesn't flag it. It's hard to say. I read through some of them and found I liked the way they sounded. But then, I'm easily amused. At any rate I took up a sample - a dipper tipped into the 8-bit ascii stream and present it here, as received with only line breaks adjusted. fumble allow shadowy trihedral perky functorial grata bifurcate apathetic amble earth moving robotics demurred brussel scooaires bruckner bungle aau tektite secretive hear chorineritchie aquila phraseology childhood scorpion plaintiffbaldwin arkansas lionelcovet denebola contourbeecham resort bayreuthhysteric debilitate encomiumiv late grapefruitpliable corrigendum mallahoy amerada horsedomassassin presage wilshirewastrel anecdotal candlelitmoan fivefold believe is lineup inasmuchdoubleheader fasten crochettime deletion augustusamplifier gradient grievematchmake obligatory skirmishmade cellophane winkabroad denote janitorsexy stratum shadescurry concentric cysteineedmund anodic cogflorist indecipherable fmcclad slung catalystdisjunct litigate lombadmitting croon bethnumerische cultivable applausedenmark sagittarius couragefitzroy knuckle superveneprescriptive accrue placatebuyer 11:16:49 PM    comment [];trackback [];

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