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CreativeEmbassy
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Joined: 12 Jan 2005
Posts: 145
Location: State College, Pa, USA

 		Yay for Spam!
Some emails have been slipping through my spam filter. Probably because I still don't have a clue what they're for. So I thought maybe I'd post some of them here as puzzles, so to speak, and let you guys try to figure out what they're promoting! Very Happy

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From: Foraging T. Slackness [wackier@turkmeneli.zzn.com]
Subject: Reply:
Hi all

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.
Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting


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From: Methuselah Cowart [CowartMethusel@johnscott.com]
Subject: C1ALěS VÁLLlUM VlÁGGRA
Hello,
his features were distorted. A delicate dead-white hand, on whichthat we entered into definite articles with you. Those articlesmiles by three, uninhabited save by birds and turtles andbuccaneering masterpiece. Although there is scarcely one o

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CreativeEmbassy
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 		Another one! Spam is fun!

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From: Xenophon Swan [Talfryn@jfour.com]
Subject: Re: Pharmaaccy GTH:98
Hello,

It is very noble in you - very brotherly, as between men of medi their knowledge of his resourcefulness, the thing, however unlike he went ashore, his mind made up, and returned to the house of th opportunities of broaching the matter to his


Any ideas what this stuff is? Does anyone else get emails like these? Post them! Smile
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:51 am
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addlepated
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Joined: 17 Aug 2003
Posts: 1885
Location: Austin, Texas

 		I get 30+ a day. They're just random word strings the spamming software uses to try to get past your filter. Confused

I hates spammers.

PostPosted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 2:02 am
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FLmutant
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Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 244
Location: Orlando, FL

 		Hating Spammers and the TYMBI game
I have over 12,000 spams to my account that get nuked automatically by my three layers of spam prevention. It's really, really, really bad out there.

Which was why 4 years ago a bunch of us built up a little email game called "Thought you might be interested" (that originated because a balding friend's well-intentioned mother kept forwarding him hair regrowth spams because she "thought you might be interested in ...")

Basically, you're just looking for spam that makes an effective TYMBI to another player in your email collective, and you write a humorously oblivious intro paragraph as part of the delivery. And you have alot of people on the cc:. The victim must score it for points on a 10 point scale (there is no appeal for a bad score, but the group tends to brutally punish low scorers with additional TYMBIs.) Totally arbitrary scoring.

Bonus points are assigned for innovative new techniques like the "reverse tymbi" (making a fake spam to another game player in the hopes they use it as a TYMBI play to the rest of the group) or a "tymbi mule" (getting someone not playing the game to innocently deliver a TYMBI without knowing it) or the "paranoid points" (when someone starts accusing the group of having sent something as a fake tymbi when in fact it was just regular spam.)

Spam can be fun if you're looking for the gems to use a gameplay Smile

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Phaedra
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Joined: 21 Sep 2004
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Location: Here, obviously

 		As of yet, my gmail account (which I've had since November) has not gotten any spam.

Yay!
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 11:09 am
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addlepated
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Joined: 17 Aug 2003
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Location: Austin, Texas

 		FLmutant, I can't decide whether I admire your innovativeness or think you have too much time on your hands. Wink

What's an example intro paragraph?

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FLmutant
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Quote:

Wayne,

I know that your upbringing in West Virginia didn't provide you the best edjunacational opportunities, so I thought you might be interested in this email about a college degree you can purchase online! $149 is less than my monthly student loan payments were!

Ur yankie frund,


Brian

(begin forwarded email re: Ur College Degree 4 Cheap!!!!!)


The more you know about someone, the better you can target your TYMBIs *whistles innocently* Wayne's inevitible response to all would be some defense about WV and then a relatively low score for lack of creativity.

What makes it fun is the gang social aspect -- if it had been a brilliant TYMBI and Wayne had scored it a 2, others on the email chain would immediate start finding things to TYMBI that low scorer with, forcing them to have to score an ever increasing number of plays until they relinquish to more fair scoring. Twisted Evil

Brian

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Phaedra
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FLmutant wrote:
What makes it fun is the gang social aspect -- if it had been a brilliant TYMBI and Wayne had scored it a 2, others on the email chain would immediate start finding things to TYMBI that low scorer with, forcing them to have to score an ever increasing number of plays until they relinquish to more fair scoring. Twisted Evil

Brian


You are a sick, sick man.

I like that.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:10 am
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FLmutant
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Phaedra wrote:

You are a sick, sick man.

I like that.


Good! The really sick part is that I told the TYMBI crew this was a new form of TYMBI (so don't be surprised if Wayne doesn't come by to give me score ... you watch, he'll try to weasel out on some kind of unappealable technicality.) Twisted Evil




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