From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 20 20:25:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E84A316A4CE for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 20:25:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from hermes.pressenter.com (hermes.pressenter.com [69.58.128.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEC4443D53 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 20:25:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nospam@hiltonbsd.com) Received: from [69.58.128.153] (helo=daggar.sbgnet.local) by hermes.pressenter.com with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1AXv9v-0004Ue-00; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 22:25:40 -0600 Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 22:25:38 -0600 From: Stephen Hilton To: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Message-Id: <20031220222538.59516acf.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spam educates X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 04:25:43 -0000 On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 02:03:16 +0000 (UTC) naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) wrote: > It's amazing, but if you get enough spam you can actually learn > things from it. > > I didn't realize that in Italian "piacere" is conjugated with > "essere", until I saw it in a spam subject. (I don't really know > Italian and approach it from French.) > > One spam finally spelled out what that mysterious term "MILF" means, > although it turns out to be rather crude. > > Lately, I've realized that "Paris Hilton" apparently is a person > and not a hotel, which makes some of those spam subjects much more > sensible. > > Maybe I should arrange for the proper display of Asian scripts? A > fountain of knowledge awaits! /me is wondering how many of my future emails will be sent to the black hole ;-) Stephen Hilton nospam@hiltonbsd.com