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Snee
03-25-2007, 04:50 PM
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I get these sometimes (never the same one twice, but similar ones). Anyone know if that's randomly generated, if it's a composite from several novels or something, or if it's some weird extract from some modern poetry?

The above one came with a .jpg with a viagra ad :dabs:

McStabhappy
03-25-2007, 05:25 PM
its to get by the spam filters

Snee
03-25-2007, 05:30 PM
That much I know. But I wonder what texts they use :unsure:

Might just be a spider trolling through sites and grabbing text that way, I guess :dabs:

Shadowfire
03-25-2007, 07:14 PM
I get those in my Gmail spam box all the time. :rolleyes: Spammers create more and more creative way to get around things, don't they?

Mr. Mulder
03-25-2007, 07:15 PM
don't bother emailing bo, he never emails back - even if he starts it :snooty:

Agrajag
03-25-2007, 07:18 PM
E-Mail spammers should be hung up by the testicles.

True story

Snee
03-25-2007, 07:50 PM
E-Mail spammers should be hung up by the testicles.

True story

Agreed.


...however, inching back towards my original purpose with this thread: Once I got one where about half of the text read like something out of a fairly interesting sci-fi novel, and I actually sort of felt like reading the rest.

So I was thinking that if the arseholes have to keep on sending people this crap, they could use coherent excerpts from novels or something, and make sure to say where they got it from.

That way, they'd be performing a public service, and they'd be less annoying as well.

Obviously they'd still never, ever be getting money from me, but it'd generate less aggravation, all round.

Agrajag
03-25-2007, 07:53 PM
That's actually nice lateral thinking.

Albeit they would be breaching copyright.

Snee
03-25-2007, 07:57 PM
I thought that you could use short quotes or excerpts for purposes of reviewing and stuff :unsure:

They could call it sponsored book recommendations :idunno:

Not that they'd be all that easy to sue, given the nature of a lot of those companies :dabs:

Agrajag
03-25-2007, 07:59 PM
I was kind of being silly.

Proper Bo
03-25-2007, 08:09 PM
don't bother emailing bo, he never emails back - even if he starts it :snooty:

ewe didn't reply till i'd gone home, by which point I wasn't bored anymore:snooty:

Snee
03-25-2007, 08:19 PM
I was kind of being silly.

:O

Agrajag
03-25-2007, 08:21 PM
:(

Mr. Mulder
03-25-2007, 08:52 PM
eckskyuses, eckskyuses :cry: