Eliza for Spam 166
Saint Aardvark the Carpeted writes "Check this out for sheer genius...This guy has posted to Perl Monks a script that uses the Perl Eliza module to respond to spam. Check it and contribute your suggestions for improved vocabulary." The downside of course is that spammers never set their reply correctly (which I think is forgery, and should be treated as such) so this is probably more academic then useful, but its definitely funny.
Re:Anonymity vs. forgery (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Interesting conversation (Score:1, Insightful)
actual cleverness of joke: 0
suggestion.... (Score:3, Insightful)
Yeah, but its pretty easy to find the server from which the email originated from the full email header, heck, even a perl script could do this... (although i guess there are ways of even spoofing this????).
Re:Sounds like a bad idea (Score:3, Insightful)
Forgery? (Score:5, Insightful)
Strange. When slashdotters insert "NOSPAM" in their email addresses, making them incorrect and misleading, it's fine. And when the government proposes systems to track everyone online, the
Pfft, yeah, whatever. Let's start making some sense now Rob, hmmm?
-Kasreyn
True to form (Score:3, Insightful)