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This is designed to distort Bayesian filters. From an economic perspective, this is fairly interesting, because the spammer that sends this gets no rent, or dir
by andr 18y ago
This is designed to distort Bayesian filters. From an economic perspective, this is fairly interesting, because the spammer that sends this gets no rent, or direct profit, from it, but helps the spammer ecosystem.
- stcredzero 18y agoSo, spammers who altruistically help each other might gain some sort of competitive benefit? And this propagates the behavior in the spammer ecosystem. I find this highly ironic, since spamming itself is the opposite of altruistic behavior. I guess what is "altruistic" is highly contextual. This reminds me of a quip from a Raymond Smullyan book. A friend of his did codebreaking in the Pacific theater in WWII. There was one code they couldn't quite figure out, but they eventually settled on "pro-Japanese" as the meaning, but nothing really fit for them. After the war, it turned out that the code meant "sincere."
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