Friday, March 24, 2006

Don't let the spambots get you down

The latest in dreary text that gets through the spam filteres:
flowers sick funeral after orphans visit widows
fatherless write letters invitation condolence establish
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Related words look like sensible language to Beyesian filters. Perhaps it helps if the words are associated by a similar mood. This is further evidence that (1) the spambots are approaching linguistic competence, eventually becoming moral persons and (2) when they become persons, they will be pathologically depressed.

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