[69248] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Spam with no purpose?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michel Py)
Thu Apr 1 00:52:20 2004
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:51:45 -0800
From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
To: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
Cc: "Deepak Jain" <deepak@ai.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>> Michel Py wrote:
>> You can bet that it won't be long until we see such messages
>> that not only use only dictionary words, but furthermore are
>> constructed with a valid grammar (and still mean nothing).=20
> William Leibzon wrote:
> I already saw it. Right now its just random phrases being put
> together and not yet entire text. And somewhere (actually
> several years ago), I've read of AI program capable of creating
> complete stories when its given some key phrases to start with,
> would not be surprised if same or similar algorithms began to
> be used.
Mind forwarding a few? I believe that these are early probes though; no
reason to kill the "bunch of dictionary words" technique too early.
Michel.
