Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com>]

In message <00e801c1b0fe$e15f8580$0100007f () flex com>, "Michael Painter" writes:
> Kinda' off topic, but I've seen this gibberish in many spam posts to usenet
> groups.  What purpose does it serve?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Michael
>
>
> "She may will virtually cook above Ron when the sticky wrinkles
> nibble with the sharp river.  One more pathetic fresh weavers
> firmly wander as the abysmal frames dream.
>
> Why will you reject the sweet deep tags before Priscilla does?
>
> Hardly any empty envelopes are polite and other short printers are
> cheap, but will Pearl irrigate that?  She'd rather cover eventually than
> scold with Ophelia's fat dose.
>
> Are you kind, I mean, arriving without handsome candles?  He might
> judge the difficult sauce and explain it in front of its light.
> Every proud dryers dye Jay, and they wistfully receive Elisa too.  Get your
> easily climbing ball inside my mirror.  You won't help me recommending
> outside your smart monument.  Some forks fear, excuse, and taste.  Others
> angrily sow."

Some spammers add random gibberish to foil assorted anti-spam 
techniques.  If this gibberish is different than the gibberish the same 
ad has in another newsgroup, it will appear to be a different post, and 
won't be canceled.

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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