Save Your Spam For The Spam Archive
from the i'll-have-your-spam-i-love-it dept
Although I appreciate all of the nice spammers trying to improve my life by 656%, I could definitely do without the huge amount of spam I get in my inbox every day. Now someone has decided to create a Spam Archive to save and catalog the spam that is out there. I wonder if he's going to start a taxonomical study of the spam out there, but I'll be interested to see if he actually does pull any useful data out of it all. At the very least, it'd be amusing enough to waste a quiet wednesday afternoon at work.
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Spam Analysis...
The top terms were just dumped onto a Web page every day, but the long term goal was to link that information to the output from a process that pulled the top news stories from a few sources...see what kind of correlations and trends show up when comparing the daily spam to the daily news.
Now that I'm thinking about it again, I should try to dig up the code; fun and possibly interesting. :)
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Spam may be worth lots of money in the future
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spamradio.com
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Re: Spam may be worth lots of money in the future
if ($_POST["postername"]=="dorpus") {
$postername=preg_replace("/p/",chr(107),$_POST["postername"])." TROLL";
} else {
$postername = $_POST["postername"];
}
Apparently slashdot wasn't enough for this troll.
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