Last couple days, we've been seeing like 10 or 15 spam emails. We're outraged... my wife complained, she'd become so used to an inbox without penis ads. Checking yesterday, I had 28 legit emails and 204 spam (counting the 11 that got through SpamAssassin), so SpamAssassin is still doing an excellent job, for software.

The 'winning' spam - more than half of these get through - puts dozens of random non-spam words with a short spam message and graphic link. The subject lines mostly start with Re:, a few random capital letters and then a few semi-random words or phases:

Re: XXXPVZ, the moneychanging shops

Re: OB, several striped pilgrims

Re: JGUPAPUN, skirt and sneakers

Re: SBHAPS, the poets attempts

...and this classic of spammer prose:

stick this plaster & see ur peni-s grow tertiary servo girl

I guess we'll never know what exactly are tertiary servo girls. As of Sunday, the filter is steadily ID-ing more of this email correctly as spam. It's a damned shame that so much of my bandwidth and time and energy - and the whole world's - is wasted with this crap...
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