Spam terms

[Benjamin Barrett]

After a progressive decline, the incredible increase in spam lately is
discussed at:

http://redtape.msnbc.com/2007/01/spam_is_back_an.html

Two interesting terms:

image spam - that spam with images pasted in, usually about stocks
word salad/good word poisoning - using headlines and phrases from actual
written sources, thereby avoiding words like Viagara and foiling spam
filters

Benjamin Barrett
a cyberbreath for language life
livinglanguages.wordpress.com

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