Dear Lazyweb, is my spam a ciphertext?

[ostraya]

I got the following message as spam. I'm 99% sure this is random spam noise, but I'm curious to see if it translates to anything. I *think* those are largely real words with other stuff stuck in, like thiskioqlceremony. Anyone feel like making sense of it or pumping it into a decryption algorithm for fun?

Subject: htnm eprd ftz fcygps vj

Comments

[ostraya]

Those remaining double ffs are strangely suspicious... but it still doesn't really look like keyboard pounding. I wonder if those letters are a reasonable approximation of a pure random distribution? (darnit, now I want to make a graph)

[ostraya]

Pumped it into a counter, and it looks pretty evenly distributed:

CharacterFrequency
_25
q11
t10
f9
a8
k8
n8
l7
c7
g6
i6
h5
e5
m5
p5
w4
d4
x4
j4
s4
o4
y3
v3
r2
.2
u1
b1
z1

[ostraya]

But yes it mostly begs the question "Why?" My current theory is that someone totally misunderstood how to get past Bayesian spam filters.

I liked the header on my latest spam: "fiery borg relayed"

Now that's getting past the filters like a pro. ;)