"Drew Hamilton" <awh@awh.org> wrote in message
news:q02u51-9u6.ln1@urd.awh.org...
> Eric Takabayashi  <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> >Today, I found "Etakajp, now you can squirt it like a
> >firehose!"
>
> As an aside, what spammers thought that it would be a good idea to
> include the username in the subject line?  Do they think that would
> fool me?  Most of my friends don't tend to use my name in the subject
> line of emails.  And even if by chance someone did, they wouldn't call
> me "Awh" the way that the spammers do...

Awh, my understanding is that this is one way a spammer can randomize the
subject line, by adding the sent to name onto the string. Also why all the
random characters in spam subjects, supposed to defeat simple filters
looking for identifying subject lines.