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Message
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Boot
Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 68 Location: Arkansas
what is spammimic?
Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 1:49 pm
sequoya
Unfettered
Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 548 Location: Land of haggis, kilts, neds and Irn-Bru
You can encode messages within spam emails using Spammimic. See their site: http://www.spammimic.com/
It was heavily used in another ARG, although exactly which one escapes me for now.
Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 2:21 pm
herichon
Boot
Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 55 Location: portland
sequoya wrote:
It was heavily used in another ARG, although exactly which one escapes me for now.
I wasn't around for Chasing the Wish but I understand that a lot of CtW correspondence was encoded with SpamMimic.
Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 3:31 pm
herichon
Boot
Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 55 Location: portland
For the sake of completeness, here is the full header of this email. (Sorry I didn't realize that I might be one of the only ones seeing this, so I wasn't that concerned about capturing every bit of info.) Non-pertinent details referring to my own mail/IP are XXXd.
Quote:
Subject: Please tell everyone you know! Not spam!
From: importantinfoSPLAT urbanmythology.net
Date: 8/20/2004 12:43am
To: importantinfoSPLAT urbanmythology.net
X-UIDL: 41202c0500000030
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
Return-Path: <importantinfo@urbanmythology.net>
Received: from XXX.XXX.XXX (root@localhost) by amphichon.com (XXX.XXX.XXX) with ESMTP id XXX for <XXX@amphichon.com>; Fri, 20 Aug 2003 00:48:54-0500
X-ClientAddr: 66.243.14.131
Received: from 62.178.214.10 ( [62.178.214.10]) as user importantinfoSPLAT urbanmythology.net@66.243.14.130 by 66.243.14.131 with HTTP; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 00:43:40 -0500
Message-ID: <1092980620.41258f8c138a3@66.243.14.131>
X-Mailer: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Authentication-Warning: web.hostacres.com: httpd set sender to importantinfoSPLAT urbanmythology.net using -f
X-Originating-IP: 62.178.214.10
Also for the sake of completeness I will crosspost the email in the Interaction forum and link to this thread, if that's okay with everyone.
Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 4:18 pm
PsychoticKitten
Boot
Joined: 21 Aug 2004 Posts: 62 Location: In my own reality
I know all i'm making are guesses, but i'm kinda interested in why some myths got pictures and others didn't. Also, i have a feeling that there's something going on with the tv picture in the dh myth part. I don't know why, but it just seems like there is so much they could do with it.
_________________If I cried everytime someone did something stupid i'd have been dead due to dehydration a long time ago.
Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 6:20 pm
wvlf_prower
Boot
Joined: 18 Aug 2004 Posts: 22 Location: Memphis, TN
I'm wondering . . . maybe what's important is in the logo: what letters are the lights going through, and then in what order could a new word be formed?
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 8:40 pm
Varin
I Have No Life
Joined: 02 Dec 2002 Posts: 2456 Location: South of where I used to be
Varin wrote:
oops, mine was in the spam filtered folder. Mine's dated Jul 24th and was a response to one of the urban myths I submitted on the site through the form there.
Ugh, I can't put into words how embarassed I am. I saw that everyone else received the spam-like message recently. So I went to double check and I was wrong. I didn't received it on July 24th. There were a few messages from Urban Hunt in the Gmail spam box and I marked them as "not spam" and moved them before I read them all. Then they got all "organized" automatically into threads by Gmail and I got confused. I'm sorry for any attention I took away from the puzzle.
I beg you all for mercy To make up for it, I offer to myself as the first human sacrifice to the mole people.
_________________"I still miss him to this day and probably always will." - Todd Keeler, Chasing the Wish
"meta meta meta, I made you out of play..." ~ j5
Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 12:52 pm
brat-sampson
Decorated
Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 289 Location: Stark
Prepare The Sacrifice!!
*whisper*whisper*
uh, I mean, we forgive you.
Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 1:41 pm
dishboy
Unfettered
Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 399 Location: Atlanta
Varin wrote:
To make up for it, I offer to myself as the first human sacrifice to the mole people.
No problem, just make sure to wear one of those wireless cams when the mole people take you down, so we can look for clues before your demise. Think of it as your last great gift to the ARG community...
_________________-- dishboy
Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 2:53 pm
herichon
Boot
Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 55 Location: portland
Varin wrote:
There were a few messages from Urban Hunt in the Gmail spam box...
Oh no... I looked in my Gmail spam box, and - wow, at least a dozen messages from JC.
I mean, they're cryptic... he's using random names, it seems, and disguising his messages as Cialis ads and work-from-home offers... but I'm sure they must be in-game... no one really trying to sell something would make so many significant typos, right?
Now if I can only find the pattern... maybe I should send in for some Cialis? Maybe there'll be a clue in the package? Hmm...
Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 3:49 pm
Karmic_Crimewave
Veteran
Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 139 Location: The Village
Quote:
Oh no... I looked in my Gmail spam box, and - wow, at least a dozen messages from JC.I mean, they're cryptic... he's using random names, it seems, and disguising his messages as Cialis ads and work-from-home offers... but I'm sure they must be in-game...
Yeah...But now my main question is why does JC want me to have a larger...err...member, and what kind of secrets do the photos he took at his "naughty dorm slumber party" hold?
_________________Be Seeing You...
Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 9:29 pm
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