{"id":14046,"date":"2012-04-07T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2012\/04\/07\/truncated-senders.html"},"modified":"2012-04-07T08:35:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T15:35:00","slug":"truncated-senders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2012\/04\/07\/truncated-senders\/","title":{"rendered":"Truncated senders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In my mail interface, there's a column showing the name of the sender of the email, but that column isn't very wide. So the mail application truncates long sender names and appends &ldquo;...&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This is all pretty standard, and not something worth mentioning except that sometimes the results of the truncation, especially for spam senders that don't have human names, can be amusing.<\/p>\n<p>This morning brought two pieces of spam with amusingly truncated sender names. The senders were shown as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Sell your Ass...<\/li>\n  <li>Provide Disco...<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On expansion, the first was, of course, &ldquo;Sell your Assets,&rdquo; and the second &ldquo;Provide Discount Insurance.&rdquo; But I liked the abbreviated ones better.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my mail interface, there&#8217;s a column showing the name of the sender of the email, but that column isn&#8217;t very wide. So the mail application truncates long sender names&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-spam"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}