Spammers load their messages with random chunks of text taken from works of literature (assumably found online so they don't have to type it all out, God forbid) and/or misspelled words so that spam filters won't recognize a high rate of, say for example, drug names (or porn terms or whatever) and therefore reject the message as spam. This is why some perfectly legit messages get rejected for happening to mention "key" words. My wife has had messages to friends at their office addresses refused as spam for using the word "love" in the subject heading. Go figure.
Aha. I didn't realize that some spam filters work that way.
It seems to me that James Joyces Finnegans Wake is used often in these messages.
Posted by: Mquest | February 21, 2005 at 12:46 AM