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In A Plan for Spam, Paul Graham predicts that the spam of the future will be very short and contain only a URL, because that's all that will be able to bypass content-based spam filters. He writes:

Assuming they could solve the problem of the headers, the spam of the future will probably look something like this:

Hey there. Thought you should check out the following: http://www.27meg.com/foo

because that is about as much sales pitch as content-based filtering will leave the spammer room to make.

I recently recieved a spam email which shows that Graham may be right:

Get access to the largest free adult site on the net.

http://www.myfreeadultpaysite.com/freesite.html0270BXCu8-707BBVO0071GMEJ2-750wZGR5775ll37

My friends, the spam of the future.

This is great:

<h|tler> HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU TELL THAT I'M 13 BY LOOKING AT WHAT I'M WRITEING?????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Attention reputation researchers. This is interesting.

The Economist: Web of trust. "If you like surfing the web, it is probably because you believe people are basically good."