Reducing Usenet Bandwidth

David Charlap David.Charlap at marconi.com
Sat Feb 9 00:36:00 UTC 2002



Michael Painter wrote:
> 
> Kinda' off topic, but I've seen this gibberish in many spam posts
> to usenet groups.  What purpose does it serve?

Randomly generated, grammatically-correct (somewhat) text, designed to
sneak the message past various filters (like anti-binary, and minimum-
length.)

I have no idea if it works or not.

-- David



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