Spammer's evolution... WAS sick and fucking tired of this Y2k shit

["Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>]

On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 10:53:22 -0500  Sunder said:

>What's worse about this is that the bastard was spamming 
>here! It wasn't even a post, it was a fucken spam. Also if 
>you've noticed, some asswipe spammed the list yesterday 
>with a spell check notice about a web site, well if you 
>look at it carefully, it's also a spam -- apparently he 
>wrote some web bot that looks for misspellings and then 
>emails the owner of the web site with his anal effluvia 
>about how misspellings are uncool and then just casually 
>mentions a "great program" and  where to get it -- but the 
>From: line is non existent, and further, the web page  he 
>was bitching about was a message posted in a cypherpunks 
>archive! They're certainly evolving... ugh...

Don't you find this absolutely fascinating from the 
standpoint of evolution?

It is very close to what happens in the biological world 
too.  Maybe there is some lessons to be applied from a 
cross-study of epidemiology, evolutive micro-biology, and 
net spammers...

We definitely live in an intellectually stimulating era!

:-)

ciao

jfa