Adventures in Spam Comprehension

Allegedly, the past several years have seen great advances in the ability to correctly identify junk e-mail. In fact, I'm one of the people who would make this allegation, since I almost never see actual spam in my inbox any more, and I'm not aware of having lost any legitimate mail as a result of measures currently in place.

However, there's an odd side effect of the increasing power to automatically flush spam. Sometimes, the email message obfuscation used by the dung-brained losers who send such messages causes them to get past my spam protection. When they do, these days, they seem to result in largely unintelligible gibberish. To wit:

According to the most recent news,
they verbalized that most American's
are really moved in maintaning their wad
That is why they uncovered last night this place


http://www.*********.org/aj/
They hit upon it after happening around the net.
The things of the net.


looked on and listened in artificial a sort of
"You see," I lizard smell
noticed Monkey King among their other


letitia watson

I've redacted the name of some dumb-ass web site from the message above and will be reporting it to one of the central repositories of other such dumb-ass websites, the better to ensure that, no matter what form of Ebonics future authors of such crap use, the presence of that website address alone is enough to get the message shit-listed.

But here's the thing - if I were to suffer a momentary lapse of IQ and decided to pay close attention to my spam, looking for ways to radically improve my life, it's not crystal clear to me what part of my life letitia (not his real name) is offering to help me with.

An infinite number of monkeys in front of an infinite number of keyboards, indeed.

[wik] Someone beat me to the punch in reporting these assholes. I'm OK with that, and it's why I almost never see spam these days.

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The wonderful thing about these missives is that they can form a sort of crass interweb haiku:

The things of the net
looked on and listened in
“You see,” I lizard smell

Or from some of my spam:

the world In a way
You're no matter-- to use them,
to work, to use them

Singleton isn't simple
(and impress cocktail party guests)
be wrong (and what design)

hire hitman kill whose
Elephants animals sleep
insists upon seeing perfect clearness

Turned mass but down to sleep.
Mashup this Most generic other
Keep eye outfor powerups

Overdrive Sound Evil
mermaids unseat Shark Now
stunning fight deadly More SpongeBob

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