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darkhatter
February 9th, 2007, 12:23 AM
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/6481/spambr0.th.png (http://img507.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spambr0.png)

This can not be spam, its not even english...

this is a picture of my gmail junk email folder

Adamant1988
February 9th, 2007, 12:27 AM
Looks spammy to me.. .

darkhatter
February 9th, 2007, 12:38 AM
its not even english...its just random words pasted together. I thought spam looked like real emails...thats how my hotmail ones look

Kateikyoushi
February 9th, 2007, 12:43 AM
I guess this is to get past some spam filters which does not seem to work.

bastiegast
February 9th, 2007, 12:47 AM
A bot who combines comonly used words in emails and put them randomly together all meant to fool you? This is as transparent as glass(Transparent as glass, hmm probably not the right way to put it, Im obviously not a native English speaker).

EDIT: Did I just say a "a bot who"?:lolflag:

Adamant1988
February 9th, 2007, 12:47 AM
Open any one of them, they're legit. spam. I get a ton of really screwed up titles in my Spam folder, occasionally I read through them when I'm bored.

.t.
February 9th, 2007, 12:51 AM
Hehe. That made me laugh. I never go on Gmail any more (although I use it for all my e-mailing needs), so I never look at my spam folder. Generally it's quite good at keeping them out, which is all I worry about. (Except those on the alsa-devel mailing list, which is horrendous).

Adamant1988
February 9th, 2007, 12:53 AM
Hehe. That made me laugh. I never go on Gmail any more (although I use it for all my e-mailing needs), so I never look at my spam folder. Generally it's quite good at keeping them out, which is all I worry about. (Except those on the alsa-devel mailing list, which is horrendous).

Oh god, tell me about it. I put myself on the Ubuntu Marketing team mailing list and that was probably the biggest mistake I've ever made. They *really* need to get a forum instead, it's just much easier to track information that way... I eventually created a filter (label) to sort out all the marketing team posts from my inbox, but still... death to mailing lists.