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Day: March 8, 2013

  • Leaked Spam Template

    A wannabe spammer inadvertently sent me a nice comment-spam template:

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    Multiplying the number of choices together gives a tidy 4.8×109 different comments, each one heartbreakingly close to making sense.

    It’s now in my spam collection, along with some other nuggets snatched from the Internet’s outfall pipe