From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 21 06:05:25 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 432B816A4CE for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 06:05:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta11.adelphia.net (mta11.adelphia.net [68.168.78.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78FD843D3F for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 06:05:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([68.68.113.33]) by mta11.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20031221140523.QSKD1240.mta11.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com>; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 09:05:23 -0500 Message-ID: <3FE5A8A2.8050500@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 09:05:22 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031005 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randi Harper References: <06214A1C-33B6-11D8-811B-000393D46EC6@coders.net> In-Reply-To: <06214A1C-33B6-11D8-811B-000393D46EC6@coders.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Christian Weisgerber 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 14:05:25 -0000 Randi Harper wrote: > On Dec 20, 2003, at 9:03 PM, 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! >> >> -- >> Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de >> > > I learned that with the proper pills and/or gadgets, I can grow a huge > penis that will make women everywhere want me. > > Apparently this is much in demand, since 95% of my spam has something to > do with the male genitals. 2% has to do with anti-spam services, and the > remaining 3% is people wanting to send me money. > > Hmmm. Sure paints a lovely picture of the world, doesn't it? A slew of huge-penised men running around with all them women wanting them, some of them concerned about your privacy or giving away money. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com