Vitanuova for 2003 August 20

Wednesday 20th August 2003

I got spam using the word "ichneumon". Of course, I had only ever seen that word one place before:

For he killed the Ichneumon rat very pernicious by land.

I wish spammers were quoting Christopher Smart, but it looks like they're just using word lists to try to trip up Bayesian filters.

It occurs to me that Dar Williams figured out the problem with remote attestation and interoperability in 1997, in her album End of the Summer:

If I wrote you, if I wrote you,
You would know me
And you would not write me again.
("If I Wrote You")

"It's the end of the summer..."

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