“Dear $FIRSTNAME…”
It’s not often that you get spam with this sort of clarity:
From: “Hayes, Bryan”
To: dan@dansdata.com
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:08:14 -0500
Subject: Message subjectMessage subject
%CUSTOM_CONTENT
%CUSTOM_BIZLINK
Bryan Hayes
%CUSTOM_QUOTE
Regrettably, there was no X-Mailer line with the name of a spamming program in it, so we don’t get to know (possibly after some detective work) with what software “Brian” failed to fill in the form before clicking the “Send 100,000,000 e-mails” button.
(The sending server was, according to ancient tradition, a Chinanet IP address.)
I look forward with enthusiasm to the reduction in spam bandwidth consumption that’ll occur when we all start getting tiny little messages that just say “%NIGERIAN_SCAM” or “%DICK_PILLS” or “%BUY_SOME_STOCK” rather than the informationally equivalent uncompressed versions.
I laughed so hard my side hurts :P
Comment by Darkside — June 30, 2007 @ 7:55 pm
I wonder if this works for things other than spam. Let’s try it …
%Pithy and well thought-out comment with which everyone will agree.
Comment by Cafevino — July 3, 2007 @ 10:40 am