[45584] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Charlap)
Fri Feb 8 19:38:03 2002
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Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 19:36:00 -0500
From: David Charlap <David.Charlap@marconi.com>
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Michael Painter wrote:
>
> Kinda' off topic, but I've seen this gibberish in many spam posts
> to usenet groups. What purpose does it serve?
Randomly generated, grammatically-correct (somewhat) text, designed to
sneak the message past various filters (like anti-binary, and minimum-
length.)
I have no idea if it works or not.
-- David
