Re: [LUG] haiku virus?

[Jon Lawrence <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 02 January 2004 07:57, Simon Robert wrote:
> This is off subject, so apologies in advance. Has anyone been seeing spam
> messages which are three or four lines of nonsense? Not trad spam in that
> it doesn't include a virus attachment or an invitation to enlarge parts of
> ones anatomy - just the words and nothing else. An example is
>
>                  echidna massif knee artery disparage ferric eros
>                  carefree secretariat analyst bacilli ge
>                  meltwater pharmacist marginalia cashew click enigmatic
> assort bismuth philadelphia
>
> could be a haiku or something, but a can't remember how many syllables they
> are. I'm assuming this is a virus that grabs words from the infectee's
> documents and then mails them out (wonder what OS such a virus might like).
> I can't see any recent virus that behaves this way. So any ideas?
>          Simon

I see lots of these - often wondered what the point was :)
I also often see completely empty emails - pointless.

Jon

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