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A couple of odd things about spam lately:
First, I've been getting a lot of spam containing cryptic words or random letter-strings, either in the Subject line or the body. For example, one came in this morning with this subject line:
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Now I can't find the one that consisted entirely of nonsense words. But I did find one that was a fairly normal spam but ended with this:
bvpwrhfmoomglsmlhifmpgpjstocnpuus
And then there are the ones that appear to use English words but it's kinda hard to tell what exactly they're getting at, like the one that ended this way:
Where do you want to go to date me ?
Serial killer manufacturer ?
Serial Monica manufacturer ?
Why are you related to the fishing game ?
Can you draw a complete outdated map of all "experiments" ?
When will we stop replay tragedy for the nobles, Elvis ?
I also get mail where I can't decide whether it's spam or not. It sometimes appears to be from random people I've never heard of (last night, I got a birth announcement from a high-school friend who I haven't talked with in years, who's partly changed her name in the interim, and it took me a good two minutes to figure out who it was from); it's sometimes filled with generic phrases that suggest that it's a form letter going out to lots of people; it sometimes has a subject line that could be read as suggesting that it contains a business opportunity; etc.
Which reminds me to note: if I don't know who you are and you send me email, please use a non-generic subject line, then in the body of the message introduce yourself and mention something specific (such as referring to the content of a particular journal entry). I'm always happy to receive mail, and I sometimes even reply to it (though I often fail to reply even to mail from close friends, so don't be upset if I don't answer), but I feel more comfortable replying if I'm convinced that it's not spam.