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    Call me an ignorant SOB, but . . . .

    What the hell do spammers hope to accomplish by sending out drivel like this:

    The subject line: It vegetation
    The Sender: goods <uoccalendar@900chml.com>

    negation, that the rule holds good, that one of the pair must be Naething kenspeckle, said he; plain, dacent claes. As for the animal. Odd and even, again, are predicated of number, and it is than which it is more beautiful. He will not merely know

    subspecies. Those species, then, also will be simultaneous point holds good also in the case of speech. None of its parts has an Those things are called relative, which, being either said to be in virtue of their genera; thus grammar is said be the knowledge of
    dressed like a lady, and had a screen of the Drummond colours on her he is true, then he is. The true proposition, however, is in no way receptive of these qualities, but only in that subject of which the ii Pairs of opposites which are contraries are not in any way
    is for the most part true, as in the case of the double and the have no common boundary, but are separate; the parts three and seven Let these remarks suffice on the subject of substance. better way of life and thought, may make some advance, however slight,
    takes place, through disease or any such cause. The virtues, also, cubits long or of three cubits long, or of a surface, or of any one forms a constitutive property. Moreover, in such cases it is one the first time. There is no greater wonder than the way the face of a
    takes place, it is the peculiar mark of substance that it should be comparison. For instance, a mountain is called small, a grain large, nor is white spoken of as the white of the black, but as the Thus such conditions are called affections, not qualities.
    from the science, with reference to which men are called, e.g. signifying that the capacity may be either present or absent; for it Thus individual branches of knowledge are not relative. And it is Other senses of the word might perhaps be found, but the most
    of the perceptible; by the perceptible, that which is apprehended by The former definition does indeed apply to all relatives, but the with that of relation, and stated that such terms derived their designated; if there is a name existing, the statement will be easy;
    each to each, or of parts which do not. The parts of a line bear a affections, arising from some concomitance of elements in his into existence. Again, if all animals ceased to exist, there would individual at the same time, both these contraries could not exist
    distinct. Those contraries which are such that the subjects in which disposition, but in virtue of an inborn capacity to accomplish son with another; for the mountain claims this attribute by comparison
    I can only assume that responding to such an email will result in the hounds of hell being released upon my interweb world.
    A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
    Science-fiction author Robert Heinlein

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    One theory is that spam like that attempts to "untrain" spam filters.

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    Opening the email indicates to the sender that the target email alias is active as well.
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    Isn't there something called the 'random paragraph generator' out there?

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    Looks like they are using the newest bible code

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    King James version?
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    Quote Originally Posted by rideit View Post
    Isn't there something called the 'random paragraph generator' out there?
    Yep. It's called "0Bernhard Franz".
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    Quote Originally Posted by MarsB View Post
    Yep. It's called "0Bernhard Franz".
    This made me laugh.
    A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
    Science-fiction author Robert Heinlein

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    ...you ignorant SOB...
    I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ripdaeast View Post
    ...you ignorant SOB...
    I'm surprised it took so long.
    A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
    Science-fiction author Robert Heinlein

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    IG I'm as ignorant an SOB as you, because I never could figure what those spam messages achieved either. This makes me think the Maggots collectively might be able to answer just about anything, like Paul Mooney's character Negrodamus.

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