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Are you sure this is spam? It just looks like the stuff Nagesh posts ...
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Anyway, my favorite spam line has always been this, which I received in my email inbox a couple years ago and just had to keep: "I gonna tell you some secrets how to be always full of beans". (Sadly, the contents of the email were not nearly as interesting as its subject, being your ordinary /1@gr!a spam. But still.)
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I can see the reasoning behind these trying to poison the spam filter... But from time to time, I get very weird spams: no subject, no body.
WTF? Maybe they are testing to see if my email address is real, by watching for bounced error emails?
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Silly spammers - they haven't realised all blogs don't allow you to add a URL to your profile. Many comments pages do allow you to add a URL for 'my site', or similar.
Assuming lists of comments pages are bought, and the spammage is bot-driven, the fact there's no URL field just means the data goes nowhere, and the post is meaningless on this forum. Spammer code has no need to handle exceptions, just volume.
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Some of the random bits about trees inspired me to feed
"Then, in my fourth year, I started tending a tree in the back yard. It grew throughout my life until a terrible storm caused its downfall."
into Bad Translator and I got this result
"I started the location four years before in the tree. However, a terrible storm long durability"
Almost poetic
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Have you ever visited Erin's farm and worked the dirt? This farm is under intense scrutiny by politicians. These politicians have made wise decisions that reduce racism.
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Hasn't Yoda always spoken like this?
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Oh these are spam emails? Damnum, I thought they were just lyrics to a handful of modern pop songs.
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Have you ever visited Erin's garden? It is easy while working the soil to ponder the politicians who's wise decisions have reduced racism.
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That's not spam; that's Dadaism!
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I am note found the WTF hear. Seme vocebulary I am lerning from Hyderabad Univarsity. :?
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I've seen similar "posts" on my blog, but the "user"'s profile usually includes a spamvertised URL, and many blogs link the user's name to their URL.
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OK. I'm probably depriving myself of a helluva load of cash, but I'm going to ask this anyway.
Every spammer wants to push an URL to an ad, right? Why has no-one set up a service that holds a list of known spammer-commercial URLs or IP addresses, and then answers the question (for paying customer sites) with a simple verdict of "spam" or "not spam"? Registering an URL is not exactly free, so it can't be done en masse, right? So, if someone has a constantly-updating list of URLs that you don't allow into your blog's comments, would it not cause the cash-flow of said spammers to reduce in a rapid fashion? I think most sites would pay a dollar a month for a service like this.
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Thats... true. I don't know why... Maybe the connection between some cybercrime sweatshops and organized crime dissuades people from going on the offensive?
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hell, that's not spam, they're tweets!
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I think it's probably more a question of, how do you source your data?
If you go out and find URLs yourself, you'll have too small a set to be useful.
If you accept public submissions, you're setting yourself up for the spammers hitting your system and trying to mark legit URLs as spam (or vice versa if you allow it), thus rendering your service useless.
If you accept submissions but moderate them, you're going to need to have a ton of full-time moderators. You'll need a huge subscriber base before you can even afford to pay a handful of people to do that, and with a larger subscriber base comes larger demand and a larger influx of new submissions, which makes it a race you aren't likely to win.
If you let people vote and only consider something spam after enough votes, then you seriously limit your utility (a URL will only get blocked after a delay, by which time they might move on to a new one) and still set yourself up for being spammed by the spammers.
If you select community moderators (maybe something akin to Slashdot, or how I remember it from years ago anyway) then you're looking at a whole bunch of code so that you can rely on the efforts of volunteers who you hope aren't sleeper agents for the spammers.
And if you actually manage to find a solution that works ... well yeah, then you become a target for the Spam Mafia, and you're likely to be DDoSed into oblivion.
Not saying there isn't a solution, just that it's definitely not as simple a solution as it sounds on paper.
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Probably the same reason why scammers and spammers haven't figured out mastery of the english language yet.
Have you ever seen a scam/spam or phishing message that was written in proper english?
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I used to collect the more avant-garde spam comments I used to receive. These are a few of my favorites:
I ready your blog. This is poop what I undying been looking for. Transfer flip, and I order aver insane ...
I will be going for an interview with a metal seated valves this Tuesday. Good luck to me!.
I know “it” has her. I’m going to try and get her back.
Many of these homes were nearly identical. As he entered the home, his parents were busy in the great room, his father Wallace reading at the table and his mother Hazel tending the pot that hung over the fire.
When Lance reached the Outlands, the communication between them shortened to the point that they were only writing letters.
That’s Too good, when it comes in india hope it may make a Rocking place for youngster.. hope that come true.
I am wondering what Donnie can do about this =D -Kind regards, Oliver
So many wonderful page. I love the succulents mixed in the non-succulents. Great pics!
Brigitte, that logic is flawed.
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The internet has become self aware and confused.
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Millenium hand, and shrimp. And shrimp! Bugrit! Bugrit, I says! I told 'em! Bugrit!
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My site has a support form that spammers visit every once in a while. But 99% of them fill it out with fake urls, (like sdtghjnb56yngbfrd.com or similar)
I guess they're testing to see if it generates an auto-reply to the From address (it doesn't)
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WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING TO MY BRAAAIN?
captcha: facilisi
NOOO, DIFFICULTISI!
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If they left an email-address they are trying to get a reply, if you reply, they will know that your address is real and you'll get 10 times the spam.
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I actually think these could be a useful source of passphrase generators. There was an article on slashdot suggesting that multi-word passphrases are still vulnerable to dictionary attacks, when the words are properly structured. By using these nonsensical pseudo-sentences from spammers, we can actually create more secure passwords.
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All you fucking childish firsters are ruining the spirit of this site. Losers grow up.
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I get Turkish SPAM in my work inbox. I can't read Turkish, and I doubt Turks like SPAM.
Seriously, it's the one language the filters won't block; Russian & Chinese don't get through.
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There have been other people who have noticed this sort of thing. Apophenia 357 is a webcomic inspired by spam lines. (Safe for work, but some of his other works are definitely not...) And of course, there's Spamusement.
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It all goes back to the classic AI translation: "The vodka is good, but the meat is rotten." Idioms and connotations are hard for computers and non-native speakers.
Personally, I'm not surprised that no one has such a Grammar-based SPAM filter. Only school-taught foreigner ever follow that. Texting teens would never get to post anything.
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So here's a challenge. Take the words and try to make something somewhat sensible out of them, consuming them only in the order presented, but from any list in any order. Only use each word once. For example, you can use "I most turtle community" (of course, nonsense), but then must eventually use "thought pulled I were". Use whatever punction you need
My attempt:
I thought about it, turtle; I even know berries by year. I thought most were about removing trees, pulled because we need community for kids. It is often I was exploring. I even took cutting, and to it, by themselves, things began where I was and were called foxes. We need the wild parents from the vast, managed chunk, the hollow neighborhood. By year, even playing off snapping now is what effect that I noticed. Turtle, often even I assumed I got them. In many were spent, by year, to crown my parents. Else, by helping tree places, years later, I remember stretching up to tree the dead. Done it! I still called to my parents, living then it is a tree from... of my "had to do it". Up to accomplish? Still there, tree? We did need. I came. I got. We assumed parents attempt just for kids. I assumed. Were told "let it go."
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it seems the transcript of my last call with Websense support. At the beginning I thought Nagesh answered, then I thought it was an automated something, then I realized they teleported higher assistance levels to an unspecified outer space rolling rock. And probably coders also, that was why I was calling.
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And that would be a bad thing?? :-)
Yours Yazeran
Plan: To go to Mars one day with a hammer.
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If you read all of them together, it sounds kinda like an e. e. cummings poem.
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You know, this just hit me.
I bet Timecube was produced by one of these generators.
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Amateurs! This is how it's done:
Yes, imperson pronoun, there cellar to Gabriel.'' He smooth, and indeed after all internal ones, but the helped, which he correct form, as I ... ?''Call me Billy.Yes, they're only by using towards as his feet first place with treads of vision for than once she's been introduced himself, you may behind himself. She's listening a humanity) and entirely I emph {such} a hard time to detect to be expected on its her, she's not the damp stone passage all the swirling in Gabriel made the pit directly behind him. He picked up again the torrent was it happy ability to this grazing he meets this, Billy had the rattled, stone around him.I consider source of gremlinous being stand the excess water the world like that Roger would him. Something, vaguely anthropomorphic, there heat.Let the very man has his head, but if that condensed water the correct ... ?''I thank the blood, though to my host yet myself, you emph {such} a hard time: rushing him in a pan, too, was exquisite. It took a heroically trite and slotted into plunge down a completely person pronoun, there in dainty haste, casual manner.You don't wanted any of sight wanted any of sight on a hurried abandon. He listened from the helped, which he could remember since to his rate inch-wide something his field of his heels, he reduced his ultraviolence and the time about to jump, she had stubbed him.I thing and oubliettes of the sense, allowed a deluge of lukewarm water below he heat of recuperation with practised, casting and paid special attentional light on turn down, covered entertainment, which he stone passed aside until need to moved his speed of this gather trews he wall as the damp stone, slippery and oubliettes of a similar height want to jumped, which I didn't. So he door, so as to his pits. Every way, wondering in such ... ?'' ``Second person pronoun, there I was the psychovampires, to his ultraviolet visibly reassembling in so uncouth among it happened from the who that Roger's secret hell.Admin
Best of luck with your next persona.
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Not being my problem you are unable to take anything serious. You are not coming here for programing tips?
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Sokath, his eyes uncovered!
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google translate?
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Bing wasn't too bad:
"It is time for you to get yourself a new haircut" went unchanged through Vietnamese and Ukrainian, but simplified Chinese changed it to "It is you, so when the new hairstyles on your own." From there it went unchanged through Swedish, Czech, Danish and Dutch.
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Your constantly expanding list of URLs would eventually have to include every site which allows public posts, including this one.
Can I suggest a name for this project? I hear that 'SORBS' is available.
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It's not as easy mainly because the assumption that "Registering an URL is not exactly free" is wrong. Uri shorteneres and other redirecting services make this very cheap to have many different uris pointing to same page. If you own a server you can also easily register subdomains. So what you would have to do is to resolve the redirects chain and ban whole domains. Now this might be a very fragile process, as cloacking techniques such as redirecting traffic comming from a server that makes the most requests (you) to a legitimate site, while redirecting others (visitors) to another can easily bypass it.
The above is what we've learned at nk.pl, a social network of 11 milion users in Poland. Fighting with spam is not as easy as you might think, and for each easy solution there is an easy trick.
Personally I believe that proof-of-works should be used, so that sending a message would actually cost something (CPU, bandwith, money).
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