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Re: forwarded message from tylera19@hotmail.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Riley)
Mon May 14 17:03:44 2001
To: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
From: Dan Riley <dsr@mail.lns.cornell.edu>
Date: 14 May 2001 14:34:59 -0400
In-Reply-To: Russell Nelson's message of "Mon, 14 May 2001 10:08:48 -0400 (EDT)"
Message-ID: <shr8xr4w4s.fsf@lnxcu9.lns.cornell.edu>
Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com> writes:
> This is the goofiest spam I've ever gotten. How many bits are
> contained in the message below the % signs? Could be quite a few,
> depending on your dictionary of nouns, verb, adjectives, and adverbs.
> Sure looks like a message to me.
As a others have said, it's there to make the message unique. It's
generated by some chomskybot variant. See
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/foggy.faq.html
for chomskybot info, and
http://ee.pitt.edu/dbproj-cgi-bin/chomskybot/chomskybot.pl
for a few more samples.
--
Dan Riley dsr@mail.lns.cornell.edu
Wilson Lab, Cornell University <URL:http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~dsr/>
"History teaches us that days like this are best spent in bed"
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