Wednesday, June 02, 2004


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As someone who took a term of linguistics, I find this fascinating. The rapid (negative) feedback look between spammers and antispam software has finally produced an entirely separate language, one that shares part of the latin alphabet, but almost none of the semantics. Its written form (it doesn’t even have a spoken form) is characterized by constantly variable spelling, syntax rules, and random blocks of noise words which are to be ignored, rendered in different colors.

Viewing source on it was even more entertaining. It had all sorts of garbage invalid markup with extraneous nonsense attributes and huge chunks of whitespace. It actually takes advantage of the permissive parsing of pretty much every current HTML engine. How about a rule that adds to a message’s spam score if it doesn’t validate as HTML 4.01 strict or XHTML 1.1 strict? ;)

It fooled SpamAssassin but not Apple Mail.


:: Dave Walker 11:03 (EST/EDT) [+]

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Comments:

Randy Charles Morin wrote:

Title: Funny

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Response:
A perfect example of the SPAM that causes me great pains when I hit the floor laughing and pull a muscle.
Jon Hanna wrote:

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Of course Spammers and those in the, ahem, sexual enhancement industry tend not to have the most graceful command of language to begin with, and the overlap between the two are more than twice as illiterate (can one measure illiteracy). I had a bit of fun with this on April's Fools http://eikenes.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/2004-April/001845.html though it's perhaps just as well I didn't fully comply with the requirements.
Andrew wrote:

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Date: 2/23/2007 03:40:09

Response:
I'm use SpamAssassin on my mail servers. It's not productive. I don't know how can i delete all incoming spam messages on my servers :(



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