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.
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
: 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?].
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?