RE: Spam with no purpose?
Michel Py wrote: ... And as I said earlier, expect the "bunch of dictionary words" to mutate into a more sophisticated animal that includes correct grammar.
Tony Hain wrote: So the useful content of lists like this one would be filtered. Maybe this is really just a ploy by the tech writers of the world for full-employment... ;)
Or a ploy by some software vendor to force everyone to use a spell and grammar checker :-) Note that I'm not saying it's good, simply that I see it coming.
Todd Vierling wrote: This has already happened; there is some well known spam that consists of HTML "content" or an image-based ad, with snippets of recent AP newswire stories in the plaintext body section.
Indeed, and between AP newswire, good random generators and quotations borrowed from the zillion pages of text available on the web, it's going to take a really, really smart software to make the difference between spam and real email. Michel.
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Michel Py wrote:
Todd Vierling wrote: This has already happened; there is some well known spam that consists of HTML "content" or an image-based ad, with snippets of recent AP newswire stories in the plaintext body section.
Indeed, and between AP newswire, good random generators and quotations borrowed from the zillion pages of text available on the web, it's going to take a really, really smart software to make the difference between spam and real email.
Kinda of makes you wonder if AP and the like could go after spammers habeaus style on copyright infringement. Since the spam is a source of revenue, it could be construed as criminal copyright infringement as well as civil.... -S -- Scott Call Router Geek, ATGi, home of $6.95 Prime Rib I make the world a better place, I boycott Wal-Mart VoIP incoming: +1 360-382-1814
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Scott Call wrote: : Kinda of makes you wonder if AP and the like could go after spammers : habeaus style on copyright infringement. Since the spam is a source of : revenue, it could be construed as criminal copyright infringement as well : as civil.... AP will face the same problem as Habeas: tracing the spam backwards through the open proxies and China hosting to get information about the real source. RFG ran a honeypot open proxy network that collected information about allegedly "real" proxy-rape spam sources, but he was DDoS'd to death by such people, and then gave up on the effort [publicly? who knows?]. -- -- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>
Once upon a time, Scott Call <scall@devolution.com> said:
Kinda of makes you wonder if AP and the like could go after spammers habeaus style on copyright infringement. Since the spam is a source of revenue, it could be construed as criminal copyright infringement as well as civil....
Why bother with copyright sources; I don't expect I'm giving anyone any ideas, but how much (grammatically correct) text is in Project Gutenberg? -- Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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