[LMB] Literary spam OT:
Kalina Varbanova
kikibug13 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 2 09:23:41 BST 2006
One of my colleagues revealed the secret - mail filters, as in gmail
or yahoo, or other providers, filter e-mail to spam/bulk folders based
on presence of keywords. So, advertisers use a copy/paste of random
text to hide the contents they advertise (I guess the filters make a
word count, or something - if, say, "viagra" is more than x percentage
of the words, then the mail is probably spam. So, if they have more
words, the ad keywords percentage will drop... or something).
So, the passages have nothing to do with the advertised products
(regretfully) ;), just with advertising strategy...
Kalina
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