{"id":857,"date":"2004-05-09T21:36:50","date_gmt":"2004-05-10T02:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2004\/05\/09\/857\/"},"modified":"2004-05-09T21:36:50","modified_gmt":"2004-05-10T02:36:50","slug":"857","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2004\/05\/09\/857\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maria and I were discussing the increasingly esoteric and convoluted nature of spam, just now, including the fact that much of bulk email no longer serves a discernible purpose.  I frequently receive spam from nonsense names, advertising nothing, free of hyperlinks or parsible sentences.<\/p>\n<p>I pointed out that one reason it&#8217;s gotten so complicated is the constant, high-speed arms race between spammer and anti-spam software vendor; as new regular expressions are devised and new efforts made to beat them, whole fields of technique can be created and discarded in a week.  And then Maria said something that chilled me to my very bones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What if,&#8221; she said, &#8220;the vendors are putting spam out there just to keep selling their software?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m terrified, now, that <i>she might be right.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocf.berkeley.edu\/~sumanah\/cgi-bin\/nb\/nb.cgi\/portal\/spam\" title=\"We really need to get a wieldier URL.\">Spam As Folk Art<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria and I were discussing the increasingly esoteric and convoluted nature of spam, just now, including the fact that much of bulk email no longer serves a discernible purpose. I frequently receive spam from nonsense names, advertising nothing, free of hyperlinks or parsible sentences. I pointed out that one reason it&#8217;s gotten so complicated is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,22,17,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maria","category-plugs","category-spam","category-sumana-harihareswara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}