> #wonder if it's not a troll,i received the exact same e-mail on the berlin
> #list,as indicated in the second paragraph,i suspect he's both obsessive and
> #the developpers of that particular apps (want to get some pub),i think
> #there's better way to advertise a software.
>
> Its an obvious bot. It probably recursively searches webpages and finds
> fairly close spelling errors, and most likely with some sort of percentage
> chance, finds an email address on the page, and mails a randomly picked
> message like the above.
>
> Some of these sad gimps...
Hey now, I think that's a pretty damn good idea. I've been seriously
thinking about writing a bot to detect MS's evil htmlisms (" that appear as
? in netscape, and others), people who use <font size="1"> tags (which is
totally unreadable on my screen), and the like...
-- Bob
Bob McElrath (rsmcelrath@students.wisc.edu) Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison
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