Spam Filter

Anyone else ever have the spam filter spell out an actual word?

Early last week I looked down & what should my wondering eyes spy but the word "Goose"!

Don

5 Comments

hehehehe

by ohiolaura - 2012-09-09 03:09:40

DOUBTFUL !
That math lesson made me dizzy........how does one try to come up with those numbers?
So much time ..............how's the injured piggies?
Hope well!
From Ohio........
Laura

thats funny!

by ohiolaura - 2012-09-09 08:09:02

I havent had a word come up,but I suppose eventually a real word would,I think its funny,guess the word could have been worse.........lucky it was you Don!

Laura: This little piggie went...

by donr - 2012-09-09 10:09:11

Oweeeeeee, all the way home.

Starting to recover - finally. Might get out of cast this Fri for good.

Finish course of bug killing antibiotics Thurs. Definitely DID have an infection. Seems to be beaten now.

What a nightmare the last three weeks have been w/ false alarms from tests!

Don

he he

by Tracey_E - 2012-09-09 10:09:48

I had wwwtf once, made me laugh

Words in the Spam Filter

by donr - 2012-09-09 10:09:55

I've been intrigued by the spam filter for several weeks now. I noticed that I get a list of them showing what to me is far too many three letter combinations that are identical to start the sequence. Far too many for the selection of successive letters to be truly random. There are 26X26X26= 17,576 possible sequences of three letters when they are chosen at random. Pick any three letter sequence - like XZJ. The probability of reaching into the universe of three letter sequences & pulling out that sequence again is 1/17,576 - a pretty darned small number.

Further, I've seen WAY too many repeated 4 letter sequences. There are 456,976 possible sequences here. The probability of pulling the same sequence in any two successive creations is so darned small, It's worse than the lottery.

I'm sure that the filter is filtered to keep out all the known English obscenities of 5 letters or less.

Then you run into the problem of words that are all in the English language, but may be obscene in one of the many versions, but not in others. Or, at least not socially acceptable. I can think of at least three 5 or 6 letter combos that fit that criteria.

Yes, Laura, at least it happened to me - as opposed to a moderator. After all, moderators are (to paraphrase General Patton) "... past middle life, spare, wrinkled, intelligent, cold, noncommittal, with eyes like a codfish, nose as blue as a Smurf, polite in contact, but at the same time unresponsive, cool, calm and as damnably composed as a concrete post or plaster of Paris cast; a human petrification with a heart of feldspar and without charm or the friendly germ; minus bowels, passions or a sense of humor.

Happily they never reproduce and all of them finally go to heck."

Sorry, Tracey, you are not allowed to laugh.

(Wonder if this will get me banned for life?)

Don

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