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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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18 May 2005 - 5:45 pm
No one likes spam, but I am often amused by it. The flood of nationalistic, German-language messages I've gotten over the past few days has given me the opportunity to see how much of my fours years of German studies I remembered. (It turns out that the answer to that was very little.) But the newest trend seems to be spam from famous celebrities and politicians. It started off as message from Arnold Schwarzenegger(or, as one email signed him, "The Guvernator") and Brad Pitt. But the newest change is even funnier. Spammers have taken to using the names of religious icons in the From field of their messages. Yesterday I got mail from Moses, Buddha, and "The God." Today I received two emails from Jesus. It is rather ironic to send out pornographic email messages and sign the name Jesus to them.
Posted by on 18 May 2005 at 5:39 PM
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I found some typos in my German spam which made me think that they're there to fool German spam filters.
Posted by rkc on 20 May 2005 - 7:10 AM