Swimming in the Spam Sea

rafael on 2003-03-06T13:13:57

I use bogofilter since a few weeks, and I'm very happy with it. No false positives, very few false negatives. It does its job.

Once you use bogofilter, an interesting perl / shell command is :

strings -n3 ~/.bogofilter/spamlist.db | \
perl -lne 'END{print"@x"}for$i(0..19){int rand$. or$x[$i]=$_}'
This outputs a 20-word burroughsian cut-up of the received spam. Ideal to feed the phosphor(1) hack of xscreensaver(1) (although the random text may contain profanity.)

Here's a random sample :

three long-lasting plain during cnn connected incredible chemical weeks line-height message heard biggest from burning risk spin databasee absence f.r.e.e
Pure computer-generated poetry, uh ? This could even be turned into haikus.


Profanity

sheriff_p on 2003-03-11T16:16:01

http://search.cpan.org/author/ABIGAIL/Regexp-Common-2.110/lib/Regexp/Common/prof anity.pm