RE: Poetic spam to beat bayes

From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Wed Feb 26 2003 - 15:29:50 MST

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    That's pretty weird spam. I shudder to imagine at what it is selling. Did it
    just have a url underneath the poetry, to actually get you to a product
    site?

    The funny thing is, that spam looks pretty detectable by Bayesian filters,
    once you get a few instances.

    Emlyn

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Max M [mailto:maxmcorp@worldonline.dk]
    > Sent: Wednesday, 26 February 2003 22:53
    > To: extropians@extropy.org
    > Subject: Poetic spam to beat bayes
    >
    >
    > Hmmm ... is it just me, or is spam all of a sudden turning into (bad)
    > poetry?
    >
    > I received these two "pieces" below today, on different email
    > adresses.
    > Clearly they are autogenerated, and designed to slip through bayesan
    > spam filters.
    >
    > Hmmm!
    >
    > It is interresting times with the turing test being run daily
    > on my own
    > PC by standard software (Mozilla).
    >
    >
    > They broken all my intimate life
    > --------------------------------
    > I was walking on gloomy boulevard in the middle of the night.
    > Ominous boors clutched me.
    > They stripped my culottes and brassiere.
    > I was innocent before...
    >
    >
    > I was a victim at the night
    > ---------------------------
    > I was walking on gloomy alley late at the night.
    > Strange men catched me.
    > They ripped off my pants.
    > I was pure before...
    >
    > --
    >
    > hilsen/regards Max M Rasmussen, Denmark
    >
    > http://www.futureport.dk/
    > Fremtiden, videnskab, skeptiscisme og transhumanisme
    >
    >

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