I just got a link-pimping piece of spam that suggests they're improving the targeting algorithm for Subject: lines:
Subject: hep-th index update
(For those not in the know, hep-th is the High Energy Physics- Theoretical category on the porn server.)
It's still a "close, but not quite," as I read hep-th about as well as I read Sanskrit, but at least they're in the right department...
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