Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam
And again I have no idea what to write about. As do the authors of junk mail, apparently.
The last few weeks I have received more and more SPAM that isn't quite clear about what the sender actually wants me to do. Usually SPAM either contains a worm or virus (which my Mac ignores) or a great commercial opportunity:
Check out the great deal and great savings offer on all the hottest shows and events!
But a new kind of SPAM has appeared, which looks like this:
cialis ball
shortcut deconvolution bypass easternmost disambiguate bludgeon verb doneck jones typewritten nuance bluestocking checksumming wolcott invitation befit abstractor emma decatur snowflake filamentary rockefeller tortuous newlywed ginseng waist
mini harm reticulum platonist perle frizzle vorticity alvin ponchartrain zloty expropriate upswing affect hoyt l'vov renegotiable statistician procedure cosine rim monogamy rubdown attorney programmable askew can soundproof debussy carcinogen giddy
That is the actual content of the email. I copied and pasted that text. I have no idea what this mail is supposed to do or, rather, make me do. It looks as if an alien from outside the galaxy has read an email or other letter, didn't at all understand the idea of it, and attempted to create an email of his own by randomly adding words to the mail and keeping the original format.
Maybe the original mail the alien read was something like this:
Dear Peter,
for a long time have I attempted to contact you re your kidnapping my goldfish on January 27th last year. I cannot and I will not accept your demand for a payment of (bottles of beer) 100,000, because I don't have so much beer.
Perhaps we can renegotiate and you could settle for less? I could give you three bottles of beer, one can of soda, an actual coin of a currency of your choice, and two mars bars. I will not, however, return your dog. I also think bottles of beer is not a currency.
Of course the above contains punctuation, but many years reading Usenet have made it clear to me that a great many people apparently don't use punctuation.
Speaking of Usenet, the original mail COULD have been this also:
dear peter
shortcut deconvolution bypass easternmost disambiguate bludgeon verb doneck jones typewritten nuance bluestocking checksumming wolcott invitation befit abstractor emma decatur snowflake filamentary rockefeller tortuous newlywed ginseng waist
mini harm reticulum platonist perle frizzle vorticity alvin ponchartrain zloty expropriate upswing affect hoyt l'vov renegotiable statistician procedure cosine rim monogamy rubdown attorney programmable askew can soundproof debussy carcinogen giddy
Judging from some of the original postings I have read on the net, that is indeed quite possible.
Except for the apostrophe in "l'vov".