turns out all those wonderfully long spam emails we've been getting do have a point (the point being they're spam)



A news article about SPAM

Many of the junk messages had, hidden within them, text from JRR Tolkien's classic work The Hobbit.

This text was included, said Mr Peterson, in an attempt to convince spam filters that the messages were genuine and not junk. Many spam messages use excerpts from novels or other works in this way.