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on 12/3/08 14:28, Tim Perrett at hello at timperrett.com wrote:

> Ive been getting some pretty 'out there' spam of late and thought it
> would be funny to see what other amusing spam messages people have
> been getting of late?

Mostly seems to be "Hi, I am a nice girl...", but with a man's name as the
>From address.

Just for interest, here are Watershed spam totals for the last 3 years:
http://www.bittern.org.uk/underscore/spam-2008-02.png (total received and %
false negatives). I love the dip after each Christmas, when techies visit
parents and disinfect their PCs. So far this month, looks like total spam
will hit 310k+, whilst the amount slipping through will be back around 0.1%.

Oliver.