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Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth

  • From: David Charlap
  • Date: Fri Feb 08 19:39:29 2002

Michael Painter wrote:
> 
> Kinda' off topic, but I've seen this gibberish in many spam posts
> to usenet groups.  What purpose does it serve?

Randomly generated, grammatically-correct (somewhat) text, designed to
sneak the message past various filters (like anti-binary, and minimum-
length.)

I have no idea if it works or not.

-- David