[45638] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Charlap)
Mon Feb 11 22:52:28 2002
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 19:36:00 -0500
From: David Charlap <David.Charlap@marconi.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Message-Id: <20020212021218.4352A9EE32@okeeffe.bestweb.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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
