
Cutting Edge Spam Elimination
Original Article: Spam as Poetry
The SpamButcher email spam filter can stop spam email that makes it past other filters.
The only piece of spam I got today was a message in Russian. I can't read or understand Russian, so I am assuming my poem came out very funny. Anyone like to translate it for me? They seem to be complete clauses but I have no way of really telling.
SpamButcher is an advanced spam blocking software application.
Sounds like most or all of the lines in the "spam poems" have been taken from the randomly generated gibberish spammers insert into their junk in order to get past the spam filters.
Spam poetry? I'd rather have an inbox that was useable. The amount of poetry and random stories in spam has gone way up in order to get around Bayesian filters, and it wouldn't surprise me if all text based filters will be useless soon. We'll soon need to either implement visual filtering. Otherwise, everyone will have to get certified sender technology deployed.
SpamButcher is a free spam filter download - the trial version is fully functional.
Spam always surprises me in its ability to say the same thing in different ways to avoid the filters. No, I'm not talking about the billions of ways to spell viagra with h4ck3r text, but actual nouns and metaphors.
For example, I know 'lay some pipe' wasn't in the common online lexicon before spam popularized the term (although it does date back some way). The latest one I've seen is "expand your waterway."
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