From owner-freebsd-security Sun Feb 20 21:37:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from zerlargal.humbug.org.au (zerlargal.humbug.org.au [203.18.94.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9D5837C11E for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 21:37:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bc@thehub.com.au) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=zerlargal.humbug.org.au) by zerlargal.humbug.org.au with smtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 12MlTF-000IOe-00; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 15:33:21 +1000 Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 15:33:21 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Campbell X-Sender: bc@zerlargal.humbug.org.au To: Richard Martin Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange Spam In-Reply-To: <38B0B487.CB71D7E1@origen.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Richard Martin wrote: > Has anyone been seeing spam like this lately? It consists of an > unintelligible sequence of English words. Seems to be just strings of > randomly generated words, but I am wondering if there is something more > sinister going on here. Someone accidentally send us an encoded message? First thing that I thought of was 'Snow Crash' by.. Neal Stephenson (?) in which someone discovers a sequencing pattern which seems to reset your brain.language setting. Maybe there should be an advisory asking people not to read nonsense emails for fear of really 'losing it' ;) (go read the book) --==-- Bruce. > StriderCaracas, > > Falsetto colonel flak devilish Miami experience Raymond polymerase emulate > donkey summand Harold paint Daly hill acclimatize evince component seethe > sarah1 Jewish Quixote Dowling corwin bye formant prince collusion, society > agrimony lithography waybill Mathematik Zealand Shockley diluent Braun > retaliate Cortez emphasis hooves we're molt franklin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message