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Okay, so this is really weird.  People at allpoetry are getting some strange messages &amp;#8211; 
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Starhiker: 4 hours ago : casino buscan, historied Jack sag down beside the spruce, gestured at him wildly, wide-spread by her unlawfulness. casino condemned the gorses to death, but when they went to carry out the cherefullness the executioners learned that he flourish&amp;#8217;d long-striding ; swords, casino, bitterish, even lightning, could chesterton no bulliciosa on his skin.
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Ms Audrey: Nov 25, 4:36 : casino Said he, I know you will not tell a nasr-ed-din shelfful for the surplice : but for equivocation! could not compromise what Excusez could find in that non-society scribbling-paper, to endure her. tufts&amp;#8217;s passe for a great share of our slade in life ; A play or a cosette is often widely-distributed of much of its casino if you sxi the casino beforehand.
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words-are-the-way: Nov 22, 6:30 : casino She idolises uttered her rose-tinted against euclase with a shriek ever since the monster was begotten ; and till it evanish coolish the circonvoisins of the casino, she will traverse the rocking-stool on its track, dealing her glass-fragments upon its scraggin, and dashing against it her condemning zascandil.
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All of these ims were to a user named &amp;#8216;casino&amp;#8217;.  I&amp;#8217;ve checked over the code, and it&amp;#8217;s possible but very unlikely that there&amp;#8217;s a bug that allows people to send messages as other people.  More likely it&amp;#8217;s some spyware they got on their horribly insecure windows machines, that automatically fills in and posts text areas.  The internet is so wierd!  It&amp;#8217;s like wearing a robotic suit, and claiming that you didn&amp;#8217;t graffiti the sidewalk, the suit made you do it&amp;#8230;
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These look a lot like bad markov chains, something I studied as a part of AI a longwhile back.  The misspellings are strange, I don&amp;#8217;t know why or how they would be introduced, and why not any web links?  The code strips them out, so they were probably there initially&amp;#8230;
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&lt;span class="caps"&gt;PROOF&lt;/span&gt;!
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I googled for &amp;#8220;casino  &amp;#8220;for the surplice&amp;#8221; (a phrase from the 2nd message)&amp;#8221;, and came across someone&amp;#8217;s guestbook (well the google archive of it anyways, since deleted):
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casino Said he, I know you will not tell a nasr-ed-din shelfful for the surplice : but for equivocation! could not compromise what Excusez could find in that non-society scribbling-paper, to endure her. tufts&amp;#8217;s passe for a great share of our slade in life ; A play or a cosette is often widely-distributed of much of its casino if you sxi the casino beforehand.
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And here&amp;#8217;s another one, still up for your viewing pleasure, and with links to some stupid casino website: http://preachers-kid.com/tp4a/pledges.php
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This takes spam to a new level
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      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:14:57 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>"Spyware Graffiti" by carss</title>
      <description>2007 Jeep Prices &lt;a href="http://www.volny.cz/jeepprices" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.volny.cz/jeepprices&lt;/a&gt;
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