SOT: shitfs in spam trends and topics

Another trend, although a somewhat longer one and at a low level of occurrence, are penis enlargement ads that have taken to insulting me. "Satisfy your woman, you pin-dick" was the most harsh, and perhaps relatedly, the funniest one as well. If aggressive derision toward a potential customer helps make you money then I should have been rich long ago!
Hmm... Let me visit folder +Spam/Snakeoil... Hmmm... - One "degree mill" - One "INFO ABOUT YOUR COLON" - A couple of "eBay Auction seminars" - Several "online prescription" notes - Five about copying DVDs - I wonder what "Gain 2-3 inches before X-Mas" might be? :-) And a dozen others that I don't feel like working further to identify. The odd trend I have been seeing is for there to be large numbers of spam messages that seem totally futile. There's no way of contacting them to buy their services. No URLs. No valid return address. No way for the message to be of any value whatever, supposing I _did_ want to increase my breasts by a couple of sizes. -- output = reverse("ac.notelrac.teneerf" "@" "454aa") http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/lsf.html "Sponges grow in the ocean. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen." -- Steven Wright -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

In article <20031202130036.8DF5F4054-xzRQuAxiFLNWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org>, cbbrowne at acm.org wrote:
The odd trend I have been seeing is for there to be large numbers of spam messages that seem totally futile. There's no way of contacting them to buy their services. No URLs. No valid return address. No way for the message to be of any value whatever, supposing I _did_ want to increase my breasts by a couple of sizes.
Two possibilities I can imagine. 1. Spammers acutely aware that they are wrong, and defying the world to catch them, even if it means losing a sale. 2. Steganography. Regards. Mel. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml
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