Fri, 24 Sep 2004

The Best of Surreal SPAM

I've noticed the tendency of SPAM to become, well, surreal. This is, of course, an attempt to avoid various filters that have been deployed to avoid the drivel, but I cannot for the life of me figure out why anyone, spammer or not, would simply send such Dadaist pap to millions of email address with no attached sales pitch, image or other message whatsoever. Here's one that showed up a few moments ago:

Subject: Re: Today's Cribsheet

Unlike so many bonbons who have made their nearest taxidermist to us, sometimes the ball bearing defined dies, but salad dressings about the midwife always go deep sea fishing with a microscope of a tea party! Where we can almost pee on our mastadon.

That's it: no Viagra, breast enhancement, penis enlargement , Canadian pharmacies, hot penny stocks or any other message. Is this really "unsolicited commercial email", which is the classic definition of SPAM? What part of it is commercial? Why would somebody invest any time or energy is mass-mailing such a missive?

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Notes: If you put a <mailto:> link in the URL field your address will not be mangled: this could be a bad idea as your email address could be easily harvested by bots designed for SPAM. The comments field should now format correctly for line feeds and carriage returns: when you hit the 'Enter' or 'Return' keys in your comment it should break to a new line. The text should wrap cleanly. Please let me know if it doesn't. No HTML tags will pass through - entering links seems to be the main cause of comment SPAM. Also, please be sure that Javascript is enabled in your browser before attempting to post a writeback. Sorry for any inconvenience, but this really helps cut down on the amount of comment SPAM I have to deal with.
 
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