This appeared in my mailbox tonight: not spam, so much as the template for spam.
Subject: Never-seen {SPUR_2} Take pleasure from
Dear user.
{SPUR_1}
{SPUR_3}
{SPUR_4}
Find what you need: {SPUR_DOMAIN}
Come on in and get it all very cheap!
There’s a lot about mass commercial e-mail that strikes me as essentially pointless – the mangling of language to get e-mails past spam filters, for instance, to the point of illegibility – but a spammer who can’t even be bothered configuring their mass mailer? I’m almost prepared to believe at this point that the computers are doing this themselves, and that this is some AI’s cry for help.