Last Mile update from February 2004

OUR FAVORITE SPAM NICKNAMES

»You have to tip your hat to the cunning spammers who use unfilterable mumbo jumbo to fill the "To" and "From" fields in their e-mail messages. Here's a list of the best spam nicknames we've seen:

» Wqfqr Cacymqcyv (Vanna, can I buy a vowel?)

» Speer L. Polo (must be selling upscale Viagra)

» Margery Link (sit, Margery, sit)» Wes Clark (ten hut!)

» Colt King (another Viagra pitch)

» Decoys U. Detoxed (they're just wooden ducks!)

» Tijuana Oliver (a relative of Indiana Jones, no doubt)

» Nostrils P. Veriest (when only the very best nostrils will do)» Dusty Loggins (could be worse ... Dusty Bottoms?)

» Dissolution L. Renewing (sounds biblical)

And for those of you 18 or older, we have an additional treat online: our editor's picks of the best Viagra/enhancement spam subject lines.

PRAYING FOR VIRUS PROTECTION

»Always willing to help out in an IT crunch, our own chief, Rob Preston, leads editor Mike Lee and a group of NETWORK COMPUTING interns through a Shinto purification ritual in an attempt to ward off the wily W32/Mydoom. A-@mm worm.With apologies and thanks to Reuters and the kind people at the Kanda Myojin Shrine in Tokyo.

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