A Jane Austen spam I got.

[crispini]

Subject: $*S*T*O*R - My dear Legard said Maltravers

Thank Heaven and you will write to me one little word to relieve me The world believes it so implicitly Observe whoever sits next you Shall I give your honours message said Mr Justis gravely obligations which the late lord had imposed on Evelyn obligations that the commands of his physician insisted on continuing to transact his

They weren't even SELLING anything! :wtf:

Edit: I know it's not really Jane Austen, even mangled -- that was the first thing it reminded me of tho. :)

[GOPisEvil]

1. Just an e-mail test.

Now they know your e-mail is valid.

[crispini]

2. If they just send me that kind of spam, I'm happy.

Look, another one!

whether his lordship had ever heard the anecdote about Lord Thurlow and always loved William dearly My first affliction was the death of my the incidents of that story the knowledge of which at that period
with such frank and yet such soft approval that the look went straight gave way as the Englishman and his friend approached and the eyes of

I love these, they're like a cryptic note from the universe.

[GOPisEvil]

3. It could be worse.

You could be getting Ann Coulter excerpts. :puke:

[crispini]

4. LOL.

Or Bill O'Leilly.....

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

5. It actually seems a bit like the syntax and spelling in "Love and

Freindship", the completely hilarious spoof on the Victorian romance in letters she wrote when she was like 14 yrs. old.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. They're harvesting your address

Maybe there's a hidden HTML link to a 1x1 pixel GIF, and when you open the message their webservers get notice that you got the message and the address is therefore valid.

Just speculation, may be something else.