Sometimes the filler in spam is meaningful:

Developed in the 19th century through the study of the Indo-European languages, the comparative method remains the standard by which mainstream linguists judge whether two languages are related, with alternative lexicostatistical methods widely considered to be unreliable.

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Descent, in turn, is defined in terms of transmission across the generations: children learn a language from the parents’ generation and are then influenced by their peers; they then transmit it to the next generation, and so on (how and why changes are introduced is a complicated, unresolved issue). A continuous chain of speakers across the centuries links Vulgar Latin to all of its modern descendants.

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The comparative method is a method for proving relatedness in the sense just given, as well as a method for reconstructing the sound system and vocabulary of the common ancestral language and uncovering the sound changes the languages of a family have undergone.

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I don’t suppose this is really a novelty, but it hasn’t happened to me before . . at least not recently:

I got a penis spam addressed to newyorkgirl711@pobox.com.

Come to think of it, there used to be breast-enhancing spams too, and I haven’t seen one of those in quite a while. Must not have sold well, which says something.

Got a penispam today saying:

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get rid of that self-esteem once and for all.

I don’t think I’m seriously afflicted with self-esteem, but you never know.

For a while there, nearly all the comments submitted to this blog linked to files in an obscure directory on a minor university’s server, which in turn redirected to a porn site. After I reported it to the webmasters of the two universities affected, I got no comments here at all for two or three days.

This morning, 14 spamments linking to Geocities.

spam title of the day: geosynchronous pickup truck

I got a spam for Viagra entitled unseemly nation, and 4 minutes later a Korean spam entitled RE: unseemly tomato.

Got a spam today from someone who evidently used Asimov to feed the gibberish-generator:

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