Re: OT: What is the significance of the number 1443?
42! Regards, Bob... From: Powell Hargrave [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just what we need, second rate numerology to find the answer to life, Not just life but: Life, The Universe and Everything!
OT: What is the significance of the number 1443?
Hi, I divert all my junk mail into a separate folder, and periodically check to make sure there isn't any real mail in there, before I flush it away. I have noticed for a long time that the spam subjects often contain the number 1443, or are addressed to, say, [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is not a real email address. Why 1443? Could it be to celebrate the birth of Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England? Or perhaps it commemorates the start of the 2nd term as ruler of Wallachia of Vlad Dracul. Any ideas? -- Cheers, Bob
Re: OT: What is the significance of the number 1443?
I think you're reading more into this than there is. Bob W wrote: Hi, I divert all my junk mail into a separate folder, and periodically check to make sure there isn't any real mail in there, before I flush it away. I have noticed for a long time that the spam subjects often contain the number 1443, or are addressed to, say, [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is not a real email address. Why 1443? Could it be to celebrate the birth of Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England? Or perhaps it commemorates the start of the 2nd term as ruler of Wallachia of Vlad Dracul. Any ideas? -- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime. --P.J. O'Rourke
Re: OT: What is the significance of the number 1443?
Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I divert all my junk mail into a separate folder, and periodically check to make sure there isn't any real mail in there, before I flush it away. I have noticed for a long time that the spam subjects often contain the number 1443, or are addressed to, say, [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is not a real email address. Why 1443? It's just a random hash-buster that spammers put in to try to fool some kinds of filters. You've probably been hit by one spammer using that number a lot. If you search news.admin.net-abuse.sightings (use google: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.sightings) for 1443 you'll get a lot of results. But you'll get even more with 1442. More still with 1444. I didn't try any other numbers but I expect the trend would continue :) -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
Re: OT: What is the significance of the number 1443?
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:24:02 -0500, Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's just a random hash-buster that spammers put in to try to fool some kinds of filters. You've probably been hit by one spammer using that number a lot. If you search news.admin.net-abuse.sightings (use google: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.sightings) for 1443 you'll get a lot of results. But you'll get even more with 1442. More still with 1444. I didn't try any other numbers but I expect the trend would continue :) You know how to take the fun out of everything. I kind of liked the Margaret Beaufort thing... cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
Re: OT: What is the significance of the number 1443?
nah, much simpler, really: 1443 = 1442+1 - , moving 1 to the first position, 11442 - 2442 which is 42 reversed and 42. 42! 42!! 42!!! i bet, those are coded emails sent by mice. best, mishka On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:39:24 +, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why 1443? Could it be to celebrate the birth of Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England? Or perhaps it commemorates the start of the 2nd term as ruler of Wallachia of Vlad Dracul. Any ideas? -- Cheers, Bob
Re: OT: What is the significance of the number 1443?
Just what we need, second rate numerology to find the answer to life, now if only we knew the question... Mishka wrote: nah, much simpler, really: 1443 = 1442+1 - , moving 1 to the first position, 11442 - 2442 which is 42 reversed and 42. 42! 42!! 42!!! i bet, those are coded emails sent by mice. best, mishka On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:39:24 +, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why 1443? Could it be to celebrate the birth of Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England? Or perhaps it commemorates the start of the 2nd term as ruler of Wallachia of Vlad Dracul. Any ideas? -- Cheers, Bob -- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime. --P.J. O'Rourke
Re: OT: What is the significance of the number 1443?
42! 42!! 42!!! i bet, those are coded emails sent by mice. Oh My God! You mean The Mice! I didn't realize the internet was part of the experiment. Powell
Re: OT: What is the significance of the number 1443?
Just what we need, second rate numerology to find the answer to life, Not just life but: Life, The Universe and Everything!
