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

[aleks vasic <bvasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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