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What is with all the weird quotes at the end of spam these days?

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  • 21-08-2014 1:18pm
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    d31b0y
    Registered Users Posts: 2,028 ✭✭✭


    Does it help get spam passed the filters? If so, it's not doing a very good job...

    I know they are quotes from books but the grammar is always crap - surely it's a copy and paste job so how come it's wrong... what could it be all about?

    Here's a few examples:
    • his ogre-like appetite, that his Creator made him a great aninmal,
    • and tumultuous swell.How came there to be so much love in this
    • and not get tired, since I have you to help me."
    • "You think not, sir?"
    • after them with such a force of suction, that within a quarter of an
    • or let down a window-curtain; and, in the course of half an hour,


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    #2
    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    d31b0y wrote: »
    Does it help get spam passed the filters? If so, it's not doing a very good job...

    Depends, GMail has a good spam filter but it's effectively "crowd sourced" when people report spam.
    d31b0y wrote: »
    I know they are quotes from books but the grammar is always crap

    I thought they were computer generated tri-grams.
    Where they read a book and worked out which 2 or three words usually appeared together.
    From there it generates a new sentance from previous trigrams.


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    d31b0y
    Registered Users Posts: 2,028 ✭✭✭d31b0y


    CreepingDeath wrote: »
    I thought they were computer generated tri-grams.
    Where they read a book and worked out which 2 or three words usually appeared together.
    From there it generates a new sentance from previous trigrams.

    Hmm, you may be right. Though I just googled some and they came back as a direct quotes from a book.

    The house of the seven gables
    The house of the seven gables again
    Little Women
    A tale of two cities
    house of the seven gables again


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