Spamoetry

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Spamoetry is a term used to describe a Bayesian-poisoning spam which happens to be entertaining when interpreted as a piece of prose or poem.

Bayesian filters use statistical analysis to separate spam from non-spam by looking for words that are frequently used in casual conversation. Spammers defeat these filters by including chunks of randomly generated text which throw the numbers off. Occasionally, these random mashups of books and other sources can be admired from a poetic or aleatoric point of view.

It is also interesting to consider Alan Turing's famous Turing Test when regarding spamoetry that somehow slips through increasingly strict spam filters.