Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Spam copy editor needed

Ms. Camille notes that spammers are getting cleverer at covering up their dirty tracks by incorporating grammatically correct sentences (but still fairly obscure) into the body and subject lines.

Why they are doing this, of course, is because the newer Bayesian filters are able to detect the nonsense messages and appropriately filter and delete them. Still, now that they are using real sentences, what is a spammer to do? After all, when I think of a spammer, I think of a hulking sociopath sitting in his trailer with his fold-out kitchen counter covered in beer cans and chicken bones. The spammer of my imagination is not someone who is going to be able to work up clever prose for his subject line.

So perhaps we can invent a new profession: the spam copy editor! For the LOW FEE of $10o do1lars per hundr3d th0usand mailings, I w1ll write you a BULK MAIL subject line WORT3Y of SHAKESPEARE!!

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