Folks:
This is a curiosity. Our local spam filter has classified the recent
exchange as spam, and it went straight to my trash. Frotunately, I look
at my trash occasionally, since the exchange is interesting. Now I ask
you, what is the informational status of spam?
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 14:07:50 +0200 (MET DST)
From: "E. Taborsky" <etaborsk@ubishops.ca>
Subject: *****SPAM***** RE: opinions vs knowledge - a View from the Cave
Sender: fis@listas.unizar.es
To: Multiple recipients of list FIS <fis@listas.unizar.es>
Reply-to: fis@listas.unizar.es
Originator: fis@listas.unizar.es
X-Spam-Flags:
<.WHOIS-RFC-IGNORANT.@mx2.univie.ac.at>[155.210.11.66:mesa.unizar.es]<listas.unizar.es>
X-Virus-Scanned: TAMIZ + Sophos en unizar.es
X-Spam-Block: 0
X-Spam-Status: Yes,
hits=7.6 required=6.5 tests=MAY_BE_FORGED,NIGERIAN_SCAM_2,PORN_11,PORN_3
version=2.31
X-Spam-Flag: YES
X-Spam-Level: *******
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.31 (devel $Id: SpamAssassin.pm,v
1.94.2.2 2002/06/20 17:20:29 hughescr Exp $)
X-Spam-Prev-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT
X-Comment: Distribution List FOUNDATIONS OF INFORMATION SCIENCE
SPAM: -------------------- Start SpamAssassin results
----------------------
SPAM: This mail is probably spam. The original message has been altered
SPAM: so you can recognise or block similar unwanted mail in future.
SPAM: See
http://mailfilter.ncf.ca/
for more details.
SPAM:
SPAM: Content analysis details: (7.6 hits, 6.5 required)
SPAM: MAY_BE_FORGED (1.6 points) 'Received:' has 'may be forged' warning
SPAM: NIGERIAN_SCAM_2 (4.3 points) BODY: Mutated Nigerian scams, cf
http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/scams/nigeria.htm
SPAM: PORN_11 (1.2 points) BODY: Uses words and phrases which indicate porn (11)
SPAM: PORN_3 (0.5 points) Uses words and phrases which indicate porn (3)
SPAM:
SPAM: -------------------- End of SpamAssassin results ---------------------
I especially like the way that mother's milk, and Nigeria were turned into a mutated Nigerain scam.
One really has to be careful what one says these days in order to avoid being ignored as another scammer!
Just as I was about to send this, Eudora warned me that this message is likely to be very offensive in its language. Oh my!
John
Dr John Collier john.collier@kla.univie.ac.at
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research
Adolf Lorenz Gasse 2
+432-242-32390-19
A-3422 Altenberg Austria
Fax: 242-32390-4
http://www.kli.ac.at/research.html?personal/collier
Received on Sat Sep 7 16:13:02 2002