Lovely Spam, Wonderful Spam
I took a moment to actually look at one of the dozens of spam messages I receive daily. It's especially interesting to note how the spammers reduce the percentage of "spam words" in their messages by including a number of random words in the message. For example, this [edited] message only includes one obvious spam word (the misspelled word "V1codin" in the title) amongst an array of other words (not, unfortunately, including Ludo Cremers' "vibrant urban multicultural smoker"):

-----Original Message-----
From: marcene Hacker [mailto:gktflpxr@acumark.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 1:33 PM
To: authority@ftpbox.[suppressed].com
Subject: tooth V1codin punishment

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