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Re: Remove With Understanding Due Work, Power And Nature Of I Associative We



On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 10:03:02AM -0400, Bill Marcum wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 12:34:02PM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 23:59, cr wrote:
> > > On Friday 27 June 2003 11:44, WBISOFIEEP@aol.com wrote:
> > > > LABOR TRUE SOLUTIONS WITH RESOLVE TOMORROW METABOLIC MIXTURE
> > > > THE TRADE WITH PEACE IS NOT CONSUMPTION CONTROVERSIAL DEALINGS
> > > > Datum technocratic fellowship, where concerning house of space abundant
> > > > truth may
> > > 
> > > ... and so it goes on, for about 70K  (well, that's what Kmail says) of 
> > > incomprehensible gobbledygook.
> > > 
> > > OK, so it's spam.    What baffles me is how someone managed to 
> produce such a 
> > > volume of verbiage that appears to have some vaguely grammatical 
> structure 
> > > but is totally devoid of meaning.    If any human wrote it, the guy 
> should be 
> > > in a rubber room.
> > > Makes a change from people trying to sell us Viagra, anyway.   :(
> > > 
> It could be the work of something like Megahal, which is available as a
> Debian package.
> 

It looks to me kinda like the output of a "Travesty Generator". See
<http://runme.org/feature/read/+travesty/+49/> for a short description
and a link to some perl source. I remember having a fair amount of fun
with it after typing in the Pascal source from Byte almost 20 years
ago.


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