http://bit-player.org/2006/a-new-flavor-of-spam An amateur's outlook on computation and mathematics. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:54:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://bit-player.org/2006/a-new-flavor-of-spam#comment-5 Charles Blackburn Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:02:04 +0000 http://bit-player.org/?p=6#comment-5 The random text in spam may not be random at all. It's oddly reminiscent of the coded signals broadcast by radio from England to the French Resistance during World War II. Hence, "John has a long moustache" was the code alert for the D-Day landings on the beaches of Normandy. Maybe these modern-day versions are coded messages from the Office of Homeland Security? The random text in spam may not be random at all. It’s oddly reminiscent of the coded signals broadcast by radio from England to the French Resistance during World War II. Hence, “John has a long moustache” was the code alert for the D-Day landings on the beaches of Normandy. Maybe these modern-day versions are coded messages from the Office of Homeland Security?

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