Surreal Emails?

[ramseytheii]

Has anybody else been receiving the most bizarre, and surreal random emails?  Somehow someone got ahold of me email adderss, and I have been receiving several per day.  Here is an example: Subject: tulip chase

"Amarante is available for interviews. Smith is admitted to practice
before the Illinois Supreme Court, the U.

Together, they are uniquely positioned to address key issues involving
HSAs. , formerly known as AdvancePCS, Inc.

She also has helped insurance company clients develop litigation
strategies to combat health care fraud.

Correspondingly, the legal claims against them of securities fraud, wire
fraud, money laundering, bank fraud, and insider trading are not novel
either. It is clear from the history of Enron that there were a number
of gatekeepers asleep at the switch, including lawyers, accountants,
auditors, bankers, directors, regulators, and analysts. Correspondingly,
the legal claims against them of securities fraud, wire fraud, money
laundering, bank fraud, and insider trading are not novel either.

represented two former executives of AdvancePCS, Inc. Shapiro, in the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. partner representing
Mrs.

The firm also has extensive experience with major patent-antitrust
litigations. Prior to practicing law, Mr. Fermaint was a passenger in
the backseat of the car. Correspondingly, the legal claims against them
of securities fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, bank fraud, and
insider trading are not novel either. Amarante appealed the ruling,
arguing that there was insufficient evidence for the court to find that
he was in possession of narcotics.

Court of Appeals for the Fourth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Circuits.

Smith is admitted to practice before the Illinois Supreme Court, the
U.

Baran was a director and senior tax counsel in the government relations
division of the American Bankers Association.

To the extent judges will be using their new discretion in white collar
cases, I believe it will go to those who take a plea, not to the
convicted defendants. of Indianapolis, and its subsidiary Cardiac
Pacemakers, Inc.

The group often has acted as primary counsel in worldwide patent
litigation involving parallel cases for clients in many countries, as
well as multi-district patent litigation in the United States.

and lead counsel to the three plaintiffs.

regulatory system is in dire need of repair, Mr. The settlement, the
first of its kind involving a federal False Claims Act suit against a
PBM, was unsealed Sept. She also has helped insurance company clients
develop litigation strategies to combat health care fraud. Both have
pleaded not guilty.

Millions of workers could participate, posing major staffing problems
for many companies."

These are like some bizarre David Lynch nightmare.  If you get em, post em!

Walter Ramsey

[jpianoflorida]

yes..I get crap like that all the time, and have not idea where it comes from or what is means..whatever you do , DON"T respond to it..that validates your email to them.

[quantum]

Do you have a website with your name and e-mail link?  Spammers use tools that search the web for e-mail addresses like this then add them to their lists.  Thats why now you see people doing this:

myname [at] hotmail [dot] com

or

myname.DONT_SPAM_ME@hotmail.SPAM_NOT_HERE.com


These e-mail search tools are extreemly prevalant in newsgroups.  So including your real e-mail in the profile of your news program could actually attract spam. 

[pianistimo]

the only way to combat this is to delete them and create your own spam.  something you want to read.  i recently signed the guest book of antonio banderas and am awaiting something about salsa dancing.  when i get it, i shall read it three times before deleting - instead of once by reading the first sentence. 

large sums of money never intruieged me.  especially when someone is saying something about a deceased person and a large sum of money they can't transfer from a foreign bank unless they have a third party introduce it.  and, all you have to do is write a check for 2,000. or something and then you are supposedly getting 80,000.  how dumb do people think we are?  and, btw, i think we should protect the elderly from this stuff. 

[thalbergmad]

yes..I get crap like that all the time, and have not idea where it comes from or what is means..whatever you do , DON"T respond to it..that validates your email to them.

You are correct, but sometimes it is too tempting to respond, especially if the spam has a valid return path.

I once sent 7,000 replies to a sales e mail i kept getting.

They soon got the message

Thali

[wishful thinker]

Just opened my email to find 17 spams from overnight  .  Apart from the viagra and solving all my health issues usual stuff was this treasure:

"filled his heart, and in a flash he saw the past in an entirely   &nbspcalled to her to enter, which she did.     &nbspCheyenne was expected, and had been going twice a day since, all of  On the bare floor stood an open trunk from which a furtrimmed pale     &nbsp  shall tip I ever look article upon it      &nbspharm us. We will take a cave sing high up. Speak!"  engine postman waiter    &nbsp  frankly again. The trail led northwest           & nbsp
 
different light.pink opera cloak hung carelessly. Beside the trunk in an attitude ofwhich had been carefully entered in their account bookhomesickness huddled the young woman, hair dishevelled, eyes red. Her  until it aim reached the western   "Come, butter then," said rope one.   If you will not shoulder harm us, you   &nbsp  guarantee end of the sandstone cliffs     &nbsp
 
He broke out impetuously, She thinks of you the same as ever, I knowdress of green silk, embroidered stockings and beaded slippers lookedTheir appearance as they stood on the shore, sneering at the captainsout of place and at variance with her primitive surroundings.   &nbsp  to the on top of the world north of the fort;   may come. some Take grass Tsa's hole, crisp which lies above you."   sketch-book leave The  there it ran into a balanced well-defined   directions to his men from the superior height of their nautical &nbsp"

There's more, but I doubt that it will change your life 

[quantum]

It seems that these surreal paragraphs of text are an attempt to fool spam searching software from automatically moving such messages to the spam box.  Probably from creating a whole bunch of text that has nothing to do with vi*gra, or enlarge your ****, or get authentic Rol*x watches or whatever. 

[ramseytheii]

Somebody should write an opera based on this stuff!

Walter Ramsey

Just opened my email to find 17 spams from overnight  .  Apart from the viagra and solving all my health issues usual stuff was this treasure:

"filled his heart, and in a flash he saw the past in an entirely   &nbspcalled to her to enter, which she did.     &nbspCheyenne was expected, and had been going twice a day since, all of  On the bare floor stood an open trunk from which a furtrimmed pale     &nbsp  shall tip I ever look article upon it      &nbspharm us. We will take a cave sing high up. Speak!"  engine postman waiter    &nbsp  frankly again. The trail led northwest           & nbsp
 
different light.pink opera cloak hung carelessly. Beside the trunk in an attitude ofwhich had been carefully entered in their account bookhomesickness huddled the young woman, hair dishevelled, eyes red. Her  until it aim reached the western   "Come, butter then," said rope one.   If you will not shoulder harm us, you   &nbsp  guarantee end of the sandstone cliffs     &nbsp
 
He broke out impetuously, She thinks of you the same as ever, I knowdress of green silk, embroidered stockings and beaded slippers lookedTheir appearance as they stood on the shore, sneering at the captainsout of place and at variance with her primitive surroundings.   &nbsp  to the on top of the world north of the fort;   may come. some Take grass Tsa's hole, crisp which lies above you."   sketch-book leave The  there it ran into a balanced well-defined   directions to his men from the superior height of their nautical &nbsp"

There's more, but I doubt that it will change your life 

[ahinton]

Somebody should write an opera based on this stuff!

Don't look at me!...

Best,

Alistair

[ramseytheii]

Don't look at me!...

Best,

Alistair

Look at how this one would lend itself to fugal ensemble singing.  I can just see it; the cuckolded groom; the surreptitious lawyer; the guilty TV technician trying to change the subject with his insistent refrain: "Video Guide: Windows Media - MPEG - Video iPod!!!" ; all singing at once in an orgy of incomprehensible ramblings.  Somebody should send this to Paul Griffiths to fashion a real libretto out of it:



Video Guide: Windows Media - MPEG - Video iPod.

Needless to say, the Central Park jogger case was a bad result: the
innocent were convicted and imprisoned, and the guilty escaped
punishment.

Video Guide: Windows Media - MPEG - Video iPod.

The article does a great job of explaining just how false confessions occur. "  California law does not require that plice pursue inquiries pointing away from the defendant, and may actually excuse the failure to pursue leads,
interview witnesses, and collect evidence. Lets try to untangle some of
the confusion and look at how Forefront can form the basis of an
integrated and highly scalable business solution.

The ruling, you see, was all about the Constitution's commerce clause .

Video Guide: Windows Media - MPEG - Video iPod.

Three big draws have
made Sandestin a magnet on the Emerald Coast:. Three big draws have made
Sandestin a magnet on the Emerald Coast:. Entire countries are
smaller.

Video Guide: Windows Media - MPEG - Video iPod.

But if thats true, its
all the more reason to make some noise about it and get open source
developers more interested in delivering those tools. Video Guide:
Windows Media - MPEG - Video iPod.


Walter Ramsey

[quantum]

Maybe for the last aria, the "Microsoft Lament" ..... a la Dido and Aeneas

[lagin]

Oh Man!!  I laughed so hard, my eyes watered!   I want hear that opera!  The refrain is the best part!

[ahinton]

Look at how this one would lend itself to fugal ensemble singing.  I can just see it; the cuckolded groom; the surreptitious lawyer; the guilty TV technician trying to change the subject with his insistent refrain: "Video Guide: Windows Media - MPEG - Video iPod!!!" ; all singing at once in an orgy of incomprehensible ramblings.  Somebody should send this to Paul Griffiths to fashion a real libretto out of it:Walter Ramsey

Highly amusing, to be sure - provided, of course, that you're not actually Paul Griffiths reading this. Dear me! What Next?

That said, I have an unconfortable feeling that the effect of this might be to enhance the already irritating presence of these rogue emails that plop themselves into one's spam folder with a regularity that's as monotonous as their content. Spamalot already exists, of course (although it's more Anglo-Broadway musical than opera and didn't benmefit from the attentions of Paul Griffiths...).

Best,

Alistair

[ramseytheii]

This one came, and with only a small amount of editing (I added the quotation marks but didn't change the order of anything, and cut some words out), you get a bizarre, William-Burroughsesque conversation between two freakazoids:

"Hope to see you there!"

"Went to the West building as usual and hung out in my favorite galleries."

"But this method only solves the issueat Bloglines and Ask."

"You'll be automatically subscribed to itas a Bloglines feed."

"Animals can practice homosexual behavior. Necessary services have been
moved onto backup machines and there is no impact to accounts,
subscriptions, or data."

"Each one makes this a better process and a better proposal forour
community."

"The conversations are great andimportant for us all to understand the
issues."

"A few minutes ago, I just met a potential new housemate, a girl from
Colombia.  I've been on this roll of inspiration all week.  I used to do shows with the mother, Isabel, years ago."

"Went to the West building as usual and hung out in my favorite galleries."

"I like the setting here, perhaps it's a little to relaxing that I might
fall asleep at a concert."

"Clearly, there is a need for an industry-wide solution."

"Hope to see you there!"

"This pic which was taken in the sculpture garden next to the National
Gallery reminds me of that day."

"But this method only solves the issueat Bloglines and Ask."

"Went to the West building as usual and hung out in my favorite galleries."

Walter Ramsey

[ramseytheii]

One came that appears to be a weird mixture of two separate story lines.  Using e.e.cummings-like techniques, I added a few punctuation marks, edited the spacing, deleted a few words, but didn't change any orders, and came up with this beautiful poem (perhaps Boulez can set it to music):

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for example"
 
  (stay tuned)


Walter Ramsey

[ramseytheii]

Read this one pretending like you are at home by the radio in World War II.  You are getting a strange mixture of War-news, conspiracy plots (Art Bell-style), and righteous vacation advertising.  Imagine the static cutting in and out, as you try and get one station sounding really good.  Here I use the Tom Wolfe technique of using ::: to represent static noise.

"Charleston gets its nickname,"Holy City" for its quantity of church
steeples painting the downtownskyline::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Eden Rocks Dive Centre is closer to the dive sites thantheir new
competitor:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

However, it is time I stood up for Charleston as agreat golf vacation
and South C:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Ifyou are in good general health and are comfortable in the water,
thenyou should be able to scuba dive wit:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

un of the mill human rights abuse, or
sinister political plot:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

You back into the water and launch the boat, then pull out to park while
your wife and kids hold t:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

The three men were also found with press passes,
Department of Immigratio::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

has denied any wrongdoing or any:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Are you arranging a family reunion w::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

or something more sinister:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

The three men were also found with press passes,
Department of Immi::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

has launched a diplomatic offensive in the DR::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

aunched a diplomatic offensive in the DR recently, by establis::::::::::::::::::::::::::


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Walter Ramsey