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TrogL

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Tue Dec-16-03 01:25 PM
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Dadaist spam

I've been getting these things for weeks on my spam catcher account.

They are always marked "important" and have a wierd subject I swear must be generated by the post-modernist rant generator.

Typical subjects:

Re: BD, whether pushkins poetry
Re: FMO, stove and gazing
Re: TQ, berlioz listened with
Re: TPEMUWUJ, police?' ivan shouted

:wtf:

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htuttle

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Tue Dec-16-03 01:58 PM
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1. I get a lot of that sort of thing

Edited on Tue Dec-16-03 01:58 PM by htuttle

I got the ultimate one last month.

The Subject line said something like:

Re: HOt SPring Break Girls! asdfasdflkjasdf.car.Keys

Then the content of the spam was roughly:

REFINANCE YOUR HOME MORTGAGE NOW

asdfja;sldifhapsdfjasdfja;sldifhapsdfjasdfja;sldifhapsdfjasdfja;sldifhapsdfjasdfja;
sldifhapsdfjasdfja;sldifhapsdfjasdfja;sldifhapsdfjasdfja;sldifhapsdfjasdfja;
sldifhapsdfjasdfja;sldifhapsdfjasdfja;sldifhapsdfjasdfja;sldifhapsdfjasdfja;
sldifhapsdfjasdfja;sldifhapsdfjasdfja;sldifhapsdfjasdfja;sldifhapsdfjasdfja;
sldifhapsdfjasdfja;sldifhapsdfjasdfja;sldifhapsdfjasdfja;sldifhapsdfjasdfja;
sldifhapsdfjasdfja;sldifhapsdfjasdfja;sldifhapsdfjasdfja;sldifhapsdfjasdfja;
sldifhapsdfjasdfja;sldifhapsdfjasdfja;sldifhapsdfjasdfja;sldifhapsdfjasdfja;
sldifhapsdfjasdfja;sldifhapsdfj

And that was it. No reply link, no contact information, just that gibberish.

What. Does. It. Mean.
?

Perhaps we're seeing the first stirrings of sentience somewhere on the net. All the spam traffic put together has formed a huge neural net which, while it looks like chaotic gibberish to us (like the raw electrical signals in your brain), is actually a highly advanced intelligence.

It could happen.

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Commie Pinko Dirtbag

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Tue Dec-16-03 02:16 PM
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2. You've been...

...here, haven't you?

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htuttle

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Tue Dec-16-03 02:48 PM
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3. Yes, that's a great site! Found that some time ago.

Edited on Tue Dec-16-03 02:50 PM by htuttle

Here's two more.

This is a good one concentrating on 1984:
http://www.orwelltoday.com/

And this copy is searchable (great for finding the exact wording of quote):
http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/

...and yes, I've considered the possibility that the spam-entity I described was similar to Wintermute from Neuromancer, or the AI in Snowcrash...:)

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RebelOne

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Tue Dec-16-03 02:55 PM
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4. I got this e-mail today and another very similar one

From: "Isaac" <ilhycpfsgk@yahoo.com.hk> Save Address
To: patents@att.net
Subject: Re: TAJDGFI, the hegemon's order
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 01:55:01 -0500

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Sentath

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Tue Dec-16-03 06:04 PM
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5. Darnit darnit darnit

I had a bunch of those saved before they got the script running. It said something like <%1-8 RND CHAR%><%Word1%><%Word2%><%Word3%>

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