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   Spam Analysis...

   

   whit, Nov 27th, 2002 @ 2:41pm

   
   

   Brings back memories of my own half-completed projects. A year or two ago, I set up a process that was reading through all of the spam that I received and doing word frequency counts on it.

   The top terms were just dumped onto a Web page every day, but the long term goal was to link that information to the output from a process that pulled the top news stories from a few sources...see what kind of correlations and trends show up when comparing the daily spam to the daily news.

   Now that I'm thinking about it again, I should try to dig up the code; fun and possibly interesting. :)

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   Spam may be worth lots of money in the future

   

   dorpus, Nov 27th, 2002 @ 2:56pm

   
   

   In a future when keyboards, ASCII art, or even e-mail be anachronisms, spam could be worth as much as 19th century commercial flyers are today. Copyrights to spam letters will be snapped up at auctions by greedy collectors, who will then have the right to print wall papers, shower curtains, clothes made out of spam messages.
   
   

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   spamradio.com

   

   Ed, Nov 27th, 2002 @ 3:43pm

   
   

   Here's the best use of spam I've seen: SPAM run through a text-to-speech synthesizer, set to music, and available as streaming audio

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   Re: Spam may be worth lots of money in the future

   

   LittleW0lf, Nov 28th, 2002 @ 11:19am

   
   

   Mike, here is a nice filter for your website...
   
   if ($_POST["postername"]=="dorpus") {
   $postername=preg_replace("/p/",chr(107),$_POST["postername"])." TROLL";
   } else {
   $postername = $_POST["postername"];
   }
   
   Apparently slashdot wasn't enough for this troll.

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