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by ioblomov 1296 days ago
And I always thought it was because misspelling threw (early) spam filters off.
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I remember about about 15-20 years ago, I noticed that a bunch of spam emails would open using multiple disjointed snippets of public-domain poetry before the dodgy links to try and get around these sorts of filters. I used to love reading through them to see a few words of Yeats jammed together with a bit of Coleridge or something, looking at it as some sort of weird outsider art.