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Post by Verbivore on Sept 30, 2021 19:53:40 GMT
I receive few spam emails but when I do, the main indicator in the body text is always some weird spelling, grammar, etc. Here's one that came overnight, replete with random capitals (my underscoring):
Here's the Reciept for Your Payment towards the Renewal of Your Anti-Virus & Anti-Malware Softwares's for Your Computer.
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Post by Dave Miller on Oct 1, 2021 4:47:22 GMT
I receive a few each week to my own address and a few each day to the address of the car club that I help run (that address being published on the club’s website).
Many are calls to get involved in releasing huge funds supposedly caught up upon the death of the writer’s husband. So far, so boring. But a notable aspect is the heavy, usually clumsy introduction, in the opening statement or greeting, of religion - “my dear friend in God” and so on. Doesn’t work for me, or for the spam filter which successfully moves nearly all to the “junk” folder. (Sadly, the filter also occasionally parks off a wanted message, so I end up checking the folder each day.)
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 1, 2021 8:43:06 GMT
[…] “my dear friend in God” and so on.. Doesn’t work for me […] Or for this non-believer, Dave. In times before refined spam filters (e.g. Eudora email in the '80s/'90s) I used to occasionally, as the mood took me, reply to the senders by using a pre-written text. Doing my best to mimic their own language styles I would suggest that unless they immediately desisted [from something – whatever it was I was disapproving of] I would visit them in the nighttime. Signed Beelzebub [or sometimes for variety Satan, Lucifer, the Fallen One …]. The main times I received loads of spam was when I unavoidably had a Gmail account for my workplace and when for a year I inadvisedly tried Fakebook. As those both quoted dedicated addresses outside of my regular five it was clear where the crap originated. It has taken two years since I retired for the work Gmail-generated spam to cease; in the noughties it took at least three years for the Fakebook-generated spam to stop. My five main emails are with my ISP, who has a very good anti-spam system that is complemented at my end in my onboard Apple Mail client and its 50+ custom filters. I have one 'universal' email address that I use for all online signups, and most of the few spam I get now come to that mailbox, leaving the personal, private, and business accounts clear of annoyance. As I dislike the interfaces of all webmail systems I've used, I route all my email through Apple Mail, no matter the provider / domain / system. People consider me a control freak. lol
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 1, 2021 9:42:45 GMT
Title seen on a doco thumbnail: Michael Mosely: Eat, Fast and Live Longer. Shades of the Eats, Shoots and Leaves lesson? Eat Fast and Die Sooner?
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Oct 2, 2021 16:30:49 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 2, 2021 19:35:36 GMT
Thanks for that link, LJH. I was aware of nice, awful, and meat (and since your previous post, egregious) but none of the others. The wonders one learns over breakfast!
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 3, 2021 21:07:18 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 3, 2021 21:08:41 GMT
A new acronym: EVALI. It stands for E-cigarette or Vaping product use-Associated Lung Injury, a lung condition. Laboratory data has shown that vitamin E acetate, an additive in some e-cigarettes or vaping products, was strongly linked to EVALI.
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Post by Dave Miller on Oct 4, 2021 3:24:17 GMT
A new acronym: EVALI. It stands for E-cigarette or Vaping product use- Associated Lung Injury, a lung condition. Laboratory data has shown that vitamin E acetate, an additive in some e-cigarettes or vaping products, was strongly linked to EVALI. And yet “EVALI” somehow sounds so nice.
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 4, 2021 5:37:56 GMT
A new acronym: EVALI. It stands for E-cigarette or Vaping product use- Associated Lung Injury, a lung condition. Laboratory data has shown that vitamin E acetate, an additive in some e-cigarettes or vaping products, was strongly linked to EVALI. And yet “EVALI” somehow sounds so nice. Perhaps it's trying to keep pace with the 'niceness' of coffin-nail brands: Belvedere, Winston, Kool, Alpine, Ascot … . And to think I used to smoke kretek, beedis, and Gauloises! – nothing with a filter or less than 20 mg of tar! Evali (the word) certainly sounds nicer than emphysema (mine is quite mild, but the recent clot on lung considerably increased my shortness of breath).
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 4, 2021 6:16:26 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 5, 2021 21:22:58 GMT
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Oct 8, 2021 12:49:06 GMT
The lectures at the UK’s National Army Museum are often very good. Next week there is to be a talk about the development of slang during the First World War. It may be of interest. It doesn’t operate through Zoom. Here is the link:
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 8, 2021 20:13:19 GMT
Thank you, LJH. Registered.
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 9, 2021 2:41:05 GMT
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