Re: [PLUG] the latest trick by the SPAMers

[Dave Harding <harda@gnuisance.net>]

William H. Magill wrote:
> This is the first of these I've gotten. 
<snip>

This isn't the first I've seen of them. Some of these emails have been
able to sneak through SpamAssassian(SA)(1p), most don't thanks to the RBLs
SA can check.
 
> It looks like somebody read the article on AI grading of SAT tests and 
> similar "writing" things in Sunday's paper and implemented it as a way 
> to bypass SPAM filters.

Naw, it looks like they just ran dadadodo(1) on some books from Project
Gutenberg. Sometimes when I get bored and fortune(6) isn't doing it for
me I run dadadodo on some Tolkien. I get essentially the same output,
except maybe the proper nouns are a bit different. :)

I've been able to generate some very good, as in gramatically correct
wth high Flesh/Kincaid reading level sentences just by piping
datadodo to GNU diction(1) & style(1) and using their output to select
certain results. The only problem is that, like the text you forwarded,
they're completely non-sensical!

> Fascinating ... can't claim those SPAMers are dumb!

IMHO, making a career out of UBE is dumb.  Just my $0.02 though.

-Dave
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