[microsound] Re: {SpamScore: ssss} Re: [microsound] OT: those programs spammers use to generate random text?

[Joe Milutis <milutis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

They are generated by Chomsky bots or Bayesian Poisoning, from what I can
gather.  But I'd be interested in knowing the technicalities of either . . .
I'm going to talk about this next week at Location One in NYC . . . More on
the user interface level mind you.
Joe

On 10/9/06 5:46 PM, "Kyle Klipowicz" <kyleklip@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Of course, context-free grammar is a likely culprit for these types of
> disseminations.  Recall the Post-Modern Essay Generator
> (http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo), which is uncannily appropriate for
> this list!
> 
> ~Kyle
> 
> On 10/9/06, Xdugef <info@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Me too ... I keep a collection of spam poems .. it was part of my
>> inspiration for the Perl script I've been working on although I
>> abondoned the text language manipulation part of it long ago.
>> 
>> Adrian
>> 
>> --- aleks vasic <bvasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> It reminds me of William S Burroughs writing when he was junked up...
>>> 
>>> Funny that other people actually read that stuff at the bottom
>>> besides
>>> me.  Who else is guilty of this...?
>>> 
>>> aLEKs
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Oct 9, 2006, at 1:07 PM, Graham Miller wrote:
>>> 
>>>> like everyone, i'm guessing, i get a couple spam e-mails a day for
>>>> stocks, get rich quick schemes, overseas pharmacies, whatever...
>>> at
>>>> the bottom of these spam e-mails are usually a couple paragraphs of
>>> 
>>>> sentences, which make sense a little, but seem like they are
>>> generated
>>>> by some sort of algorithm, in order to bypass spam filters...  i
>>>> really like the nonsensical stuff at the bottom of these junk
>>> e-mails,
>>>> believe it or not, and i'm wondering if there is some kind of
>>> online
>>>> application used for generating these kinds of passages? it really
>>>> reminds me a bit of david byrne lyrics circa remain in light!
>>>> generative poetry or lyrics... i love it! does anyone know how
>>> these
>>>> bits of text are generated and where i might find a similar app to
>>> do
>>>> such a thing? i promise i won't use it for evil - only for art...
>>>> well... okay. maybe for evil art. but that's it, i swear.
>>>> 
>>>> g.
>>>> 
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