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[attorneyatlol]

This has to be the single strangest junk e-mail I've ever gotten.

Of the matter of snow here. Both of us have grasped
The mortal architect had brought to life,
My keyhole blows a gale
XV. The International Circumpolar Stations: The Greely Expedition
And beyond, the same sound of bees
A rabbit carcass in its stiffened fur.
And he is swathed in ever-petrified dread;

It's almost poetic.

In related news, I'm finally done catching up with all of my e-mails and voice mails. I never thought it'd take so long to get through two months of backlog, but I guess you don't realize how much stuff you get until it all piles up. At least I don't have to worry about it anymore...

Comments

[maraich]

Are you doing ok?

[attorneyatlol]

Yeah... It's still weird to think about, but I've put it behind me now. No sense worrying about what you can't change, right?

[maraich]

I know an excellent secretary...

[attorneyatlol]

Are you soliciting me?

[vonkarmas.livejournal.com]

This is why I make it a priority to check my emails and voice mails frequently. You should know better than to procrastinate, Phoenix Wright.

[attorneyatlol]

Hey, I know I'm not always on top of things, but this was a little out of my control.

[vonkarmas.livejournal.com]

... Do you not know how to check these things?

[attorneyatlol]

Of course I know how to check them! I wasn't procrastinating. I was gone.

[honestcop.livejournal.com]

That's Bayesian poisoning, but it's not very good. I'm not sure why it got through. You should probably train your filter better.

[attorneyatlol]

...It's what poisoning?

[honestcop.livejournal.com]

Bayesian filtering screens for junk email based on a profile the program builds of what words appear in legitimate traffic to an address. Bayesian poisoning attempts to defeat that filtering by loading messages with enough "good" words to override the "bad" ones in the filter's classification of the content.

But that one's just scattershot. Even if your world doesn't have natural language processing, a decently-trained filter would catch that.

[attorneyatlol]

Er, you lost me at 'Bayesian filtering', but I think I get the gist of it.

Is it harmful?

[philoxidizes]

It's like the Magic Eye version of advertising. Stare at it long enough, and perhaps the answer will appear.

[attorneyatlol]

...You're not telling me you got something out of that, are you?

[philoxidizes]

It's clearly trying to sell you arctic-level snow gear, isn't it?

[attorneyatlol]

Hm. Arctic-level snow gear for the Greely Expedition?

[oceanicbutterfly]

...and it didn't even mention a product or anything?

[attorneyatlol]

No, but it did have few links. I'm sure it was trying to infect my computer with something.

[oceanicbutterfly]

Or it was just a badly-designed advertisement.

[nick-4-maya.livejournal.com]

It is a little poetic, isn't it Mr. Nick! I don't think I really understand what it's trying to say, though.

[attorneyatlol]

I don't think it's trying to say anything, Pearls. It's just some cleverly disguised spam mail.

[nick-4-maya.livejournal.com]

"Spam mail...?"

[magicalminuki.livejournal.com]

What's the poem supposed to mean?

[attorneyatlol]

When seeking shelter during a snowstorm, make sure all your windows and doors are sealed so you don't freeze to death before you get a chance to finish your expedition?

[magicalminuki.livejournal.com]

That's good advice!