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Skip Intro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 09:40 PM
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Please excuse, wrong forum.
Edited on Wed Jun-11-08 09:47 PM by Skip Intro
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 09:42 PM
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1. Copy and Paste from Spam?
They include the nonsense in Spam to try to avoid the filters by making it look like a real email.
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 09:43 PM
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2. Don't know what it means.....but it's the longest run on sentence
ever....
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 09:43 PM
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3. Never buy a used car from Lee Mercer, Jr.
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 09:43 PM
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4. I'm sorry, but is there a reason this is posted here?
I'm trying to figure out what this has to do with the General Election and presidential politics?
I can be dense, so please have patience with me.
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papapi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 09:48 PM
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8. I'm not that dense - I don't think you are either.
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Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 09:45 PM
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5. The odd content is generally to get past content filters
it uniquifies the message content.
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foo_bar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 09:46 PM
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6. it's a random word generator to fool spam detectors
The same ad is posted in delaware and miami, so it's definitely a scam.
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JimGinPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 09:47 PM
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7. They're "Desperately Seeking Susan" Ads...
For terrorists!!!!111!!!! :scared:
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PBS Poll-435 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 09:48 PM
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9. You are the worst terrorist evah
I was going to use my skillz on the VIN number.

Then you had to ruin it.

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TheDebbieDee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 09:49 PM
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10. I vote for answer # 1. This long passage might be just the
ticket to avoid the spam filters.
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foo_bar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 09:53 PM
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13. it's not copy and pasted, or spam filters would catch on immediately
It has to be a somewhat unique strand of gibberish to constantly outfox the evolving filter with Bayesian poisoning.
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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 09:49 PM
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11. Jake3463 is right.
Edited on Wed Jun-11-08 09:50 PM by Drunken Irishman
It's supposed to get past the SPAM filters of e-mails or other sites. I get this crap in my e-mail all the time and there's always some horribly butchered quote by someone in there, or a great deal of rambling.

Love is always lost...if you're too afraid to find it...

Some bull crap like that.
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 09:51 PM
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12. I believe it's an attempt to "fool" the spam filters
by placing seemingly real text, it appears to the spam filters that it's a legit message. Text filters search for verbs and adverbs and nouns and as long as they're in the right places -- and don't contain "erection," "Viagra," "refinance," etc., -- then the filters are supposedly fooled into accepting it as a legit posting. The filters don't check for literary substance or quality writing.

But I could be wrong.

.
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