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2010
Thursday the Twenty-second of July
(Sumana) Rejected Titles For the Encyclopedia Britannica: Subject line:
Special discount for sumanah. music in the Encyclopedia leukemia
Friday the Seventh of May
(Sumana) Subject Line Instructions: "swallow several times to equalize the pressure. T"
Tuesday the Thirtieth of March
(Sumana) Zap!: Today's charming spam must have gotten through the filter because of its awesome subject:
glass of rocket juice. "I The text came from Danger in Deep Space by Carey Rockwell, 1953, one of The Tom Corbett Space Cadet Stories. Excerpt: Connel followed Roger and Tom to the control deck. Loring and Mason were still in the positions they were in when Tom had fired his paralo-ray. Connel took Tom's gun and switched to the neutralizer. He fired twice and the two men rose shakily to their feet. Connel faced them, his eyes burning. Illustrations include "I know we're going to be sent to the prison asteroid and we deserve it," said Loring and The jet cab raced along the highway to Venusport.
Tuesday the Sixteenth of March
(Leonard) One Day, I Would Enact a Commercial Loan: My weblog gets quite a few spam comments for financial services, written in a stilted style and thesaurized vocabulary that reminds me of a young child playing dress-up, or a space alien in a rubber human-shaped suit. Some gems:
Some time ago, I did need to buy a good house for my corporation but I didn't have enough money and couldn't buy anything. Thank goodness my fellow proposed to take the loans at reliable bank. Therefore, I acted so and was happy with my commercial loan. This is known that cash makes people free. But how to act when one has no cash? The only one way is to get the mortgage loans and just credit loan.
Monday the Twenty-fifth of January
(Brendan) "Details you asked for.": I got an unsolicited message from a nonexistent domain this morning, with that subject line and this body:
Recipe for great BBQ Sauce:That's it. No links, no attachments, no images, no hidden HTML. There isn't even anything funny in the headers. Presumably this was just a live throwaway test of some new botnet, but it looks pretty good! What do we think the recipe actually produces: good sauce, bad sauce, hidden messages, crystal meth? And if it really does produce sauce, how does it taste on... Spam? (Kevan) Warning!:
2009
Sunday the Thirtieth of August
(Sumana) New Host For This Leech: The blog's now moved to harihareswara.net, and we'll have fewer problems from now on (I hope) with the server being all YOU CAN'T POST THAT IT'S SPAMMY.
To kick things off: now that I've seen the subject line "such a strong positive effect on your dude-pole," I'll be hard-pressed to avoid using "dude-pole" in mixed company.
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