Spam and Wikipedia

If you read the post prior to this, you would know about the strange error message that I got on Samspade.org.

This was the strange error message:

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ERROR: Unable to connect to for Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f8a38150b440dab4e5aa41b8e373d75a X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (WinNT; U) Subject: mushrooms have more cc: fioday@aol.com cc: lacutepoet@aol.com cc: k0enig@aol.com cc: misstress22@aol.com cc: livvybird@aol.com cc: dinotto2@aol.com cc: catrice351@aol.com cc: sportstar3tk@aol.com This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --f8a38150b440dab4e5aa41b8e373d75a Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain pickle cured and coated in yellow cornmeal. his variation is also known as = peameal bacon, because in times past a mixture of ground yellow peas was us= ed for coating to improve curing --f8a38150b440dab4e5aa41b8e373d75a-- . for 70.167.151.46 ... Aborting
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What did I do next? The very very obvious, I googled for the following sentence (without the quotes) "plain pickle cured and coated in yellow cornmeal. his variation is also known as".

The first hit was Wikipedia ! This Wikipedia article on Bacon has the exact sentence.

The other hits are also quite interesting. For instance on this site http://www.typotect.com/a/pix/pix-Pages/images.php?id=0 a similar piece of text appears. It appears as comment spam and the text is:

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posted by: dry Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Grocery: 00637cad6139c633d2962282ef73ea86 Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: Eudora [Macintosh version 6.0a15] Subject: the ham in a brine to: jimmydy2j@aol.com to: print4u2@aol.com to: sndbutler02@aol.com to: gantwo@aol.com to: mpcbfamily@aol.com to: iynchwise@aol.com has been sweet pickle cured and coated in yellow cornmeal. his variation is= also known as peameal bacon, because in times past a mixture of ground yel= low .he9808@typotect.com
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On this site http://www.joesportsfan.com/column.php?storyid=102
we again see comment spam, the text being:

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Posted By t8241@joesportsfan.com :: September 14, 2006 @ 12:06:07 AM
often
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0-5mdk
Content-Type: text/plain
Moked: 62f25a15e7aef27d13ad6ff229dbddd6
Subject: curing suitable
bcc: marciec67@yahoo.com
bcc: hazeltwinkle19@yahoo.com
bcc: ltcaohf@yahoo.com
bcc: michaelbutch@yahoo.com
bcc: bluedog420@yahoo.com
bcc: iynchwise@aol.com
bcc: jpjones@yahoo.com
bcc: maromar@lycos.com
bcc: dbanks@qwest.net
bcc: parchment@yahoo.com
bcc: titsnhips215@marten.com

anada, where it is simply called back bacon, or peameal bacon. n anada,
anadian bacon is traditionally unsmoked back bacon that has been sweet
pickle cured and coated in yellow cornmeal. his variation is also known as
peameal bacon, because in times past a mixture
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We have seen very recently how spam messages were making use of English classic texts to pass through Spam filters.

Question Time:
* Is this attempt of using text from Wikipedia along the same lines?
* Why is email spam being seen in comment fields?
* Why is Samspade displaying email spam?

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