Re: [microsound] OT: those programs spammers use to generate random text?

[Kyle Klipowicz <kyleklip@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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