I go through my spam everyday to make sure that false positives don’t get deleted. For whatever reason, stuff coming from the Help Desk at CMU gets labeled as spam a lot. I’m not saying it sounds like word salad (*cough*), but it trips off gmail’s spam sensors. The good thing about gmail is a low false negative rate, the bad thing is a fairly high false positive. And if you weren’t already aware, word salad is the name given to the jumble of unrelated, often obscure words that appear in a spam email to throw off spam filters.
The various spam messages I get never fail to amuse me in some way, so why not share them with you, my innocent reader would rather never see another spam title again? Ages ago, I was especially amused by two bits of spam that actually had lines from Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series as subject lines. I captured an image of the second one, but the first is lost forever and I haven’t noticed one since (click on it if it’s too small to read).
So the inaugural Spam of the Day (SOTD, rhymes with sotted):
“Try the new manpower candy!”
