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From: Daniel Folkinshteyn <dfolkins@groovy.je.yale.edu>
To: Bruce Campbell <bc@thehub.com.au>
Subject: Re: Strange Spam
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 00:47:51 -0500
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hey dude!! 
that was what i thought too.  
although, even if it is designed to screw someones mind when he reads it, its
not gonna work - very few people have enough patience to actually read through
the whole thing.  hehe. :)

ps.  for those of you who have not read snow crash, its a must-read.

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
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