it's a bad knockoff of Mark V. Shaney. On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:12 AM, wrote: > françai s writes: > > > I say this because about three years ago the Riga Technical University > > YOU cannot say anything, because you are a spam bot advertising for "the > Riga Technical University and University of Latvia" and not a sentient > being. > > I wrote a prose engine a bit like this when I was in college, but mine > wasn't used to generate spam. I used it to do my homework for me. It > uses a set of production rules applicable to English text, with a small > set of topic-specific facts (such as "binary code" = "machine > language"). As you can see, it is difficult to get the resulting text > grammatically correct. It's even harder getting it to make sense. > > In this e-mail, the ratio of spelling errors to grammatical errors is > zero. That's a dead giveaway that it's a bot. If it were written by a > human, it would have mroe typos and speelling errors. > >