OT: archery filler [was: Chunking the cruft ...]

[David Relson]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:48:35 -0800
Chris Wilkes wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 02:33:51PM -0500, Eric Wood wrote:
> > 
> > When spammers use about 50 to100 or more random words, spam seems to
> > get through. 
> 
> I'm starting to see spam that acts like its an email to friends of "Hi
> Bob, how are things?  We went on a trip last week..." and it goes on
> for a paragraph or two.  Finally there's the payload of a URL.
> 
> And the random works are getting "better" in that they are somewhat
> grammatically correct.  See 
>   http://ladro.com/bf/frays.txt
> for an amusing example from a "Frays M. Fragmenting"
> 
> Chris

As many of you know, traditional archery is one of my interests.  I
enjoy target archery and have converted staves of hickory and osage
orange into self bows.  That interest helped name my company when I
departed the corporate world.  However I digress...

Occasionally I happen to see the plain text "filler" portion of spam. It
doesn't happen often because there's too much spam to bother with.
However on two occasions the spammer has used portions of archery
related articles for their filler.  Using google, I've even found the
original article.  Anyhow, I treasure those 2 spam and wonder how many
other "valuable" messages I might have missed.  Unfortunately, life is
too short to answer that question.