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[vyvyanx]

Over the last week or so, I've been receiving increasing quantities of a very particular type of spam to my cus account. It is apparently addressed to a single other person with a cus account, has a typical short spam title (eg. Stop that hair loss now! or Lose weight fast... or Add 4 to 5 extra inches!!!) followed at the end of the subject line by a short string of jumbled lowercase letters. The body of the message is unviewable in Pine, being apparently in HTML, and always has a length somewhere between 140 and 170 lines. I'm curious as to whether it's actually some kind of virus rather than spam, given the very specific format of it. Anyone here have any ideas? (It's now making up about 95% of my incoming mail.)

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[dryad-wombat.livejournal.com]

Indeed, spam seems to have increased out of nowhere! My Cornell account is absolutely deluged with it now too, and it was never this bad before. I can't work out what is going on at all. And they all seem to be offering the same implausible things.

Marisa dear, Richard and I are back from Wales now. Shall we Converge for a Coffee Experience? :) I think this weekend you have a wedding to attend, am I recalling right? I fso, perhaps next Tuesday be a good day?

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[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

That sounds great. 2pm be okay for you? Where would you like to meet?