[IP] [spam] letter from Jon Postel
Begin forwarded message:
From: Peter Bachman <peterb@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 10, 2004 3:00:56 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [spam] letter from Jon Postel
Dave,
Got an email addressed from Jon Postel today. Of course it was an
infected
W32.Netsky.D Worm that had scanned through someone's hard drive for
email
addresses, and not an message from the great beyond being channeled
through
a DSL connection.
Still it's a self-generated ironic comment by the network, on the sad
state of
email within the network. The great computational expense generated by
sending spam out into the network is obviously wasted on trying to sell
Viagra; that much bandwidth and computing power is evolving into
something
else; perhaps a very primitive early form of network intelligence that's
linking up bits of information in odd, but somewhat predictable ways.
Now if the "random spam monkeys" can type up and send me an unpublished
mss
from William_Shakespeare@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I can make money
fast.
I'll be waiting near the trash bin of my bayseian filters looking for
submissions.
Cheers,
Peter Bachman
peterb@xxxxxxxxx
Can a machine think?
"You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you will
tell me
precisely what it is that a machine cannot do, then I can always make a
machine which will do just that" J. von Neumann 1948 Princeton, NJ
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