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Same. I got a 2:2 mostly because of things like having to write huge essays on how the MS office paperclip is playing god and the web development module (which was all in lotus notes) in the final year. The professors gave the complete code available to anyone who asked for it in any programming modules so there's no way you could fail (in fact in some cases you'd lose marks for being adventurous and doing something in a different way - for example my friend used a doubly linked list in a java assignment for performance reasons but lost marks because the professors version of the solution had a standard linked list).
Dave Parker wrote:
my friend used a doubly linked list in a java assignment for performance reasons but lost marks because the professors version of the solution had a standard linked list
That is crazy, either the professors are just really picky, or they didn't understand a doubly linked list themselves. Either way it concerns me, what uni was that?
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
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Hey, another Essex alumni. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. It's quite a few years since I've been back. Lots of good memories :-D
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
I enjoyed myself waaaaaaaaay too much :laugh: Basically a 3-year drinking binge, couldn't believe I got a 2:1 at the end of it. This years sports alumni weekend was a harsh reminder that I can't take it anymore though :laugh: Was Mike Sanderson (mainly java prof) there during your time?
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
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Ignore him. Save some poor future programmer the hassles of having a useless spunger for a co-worker.
Corinna John wrote:
If I were religious, I'd say "Oh my god..."
Correction... If you were religious you would NOT say that. :doh:
Oh my god, thanks for the correction! I forgot that the bible forbids the abuse of his name.
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Hello fellow CPians, my spam filter removed this mail from my inbox, so I received it two days late. Anyway, am I an a**hole not to answer? ---------------------------------- My name is [let's keep him anonymous], I'm a final year college student. I'm doing a stegangography project for my final test. I'm using Visual Basic 2005 software. I'ts steganography using wav and mp3 files and choosen text file as message. I still having problem until right now. I'm so confused. I can't make the program. I realy need your help, 'cause if I can't make it, I can't graduate and I can't make my parents proud of me. I hope you can help me about it. Please send me the program to my mail at [let's keep him anonymous]@yahoo.co.uk Thanks a lot, ----------------------------------
- This poor boy has studied computer science. (FYI, I just began to study part-time at a distance university, doing a full-time job at daylight. If I'll finish by bachelor degree at all, it'll be in about four years.)
- Though he should be a professional, he uses VB (no offense meant, honestly...) and he's not able to put his concrete problem into words.
- His main problem is not that he cannot start a job or something else related to programming/graduating, but that Mummy and Daddy won't be proud of him. (If I were religious, I'd say "Oh my god...")
I'd love to tell him that the purpose of a graduation project is to show that he can do a whole project on his own. I'd love to tell him that he needs to learn and graduate for himself, not for his parents. But ... I think I'll just send him a complete C# project that "hides" data in WAV so that it stays readable after MP3 compression and decompression. I have it here on my harddisk. Wrote it a while back as a gimmick to a short story which deals about some freaks using stego via file sharing. The stego waves sound horrible, just like a radio transmission with heavy noise, but maybe he'll like it.
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Thank you lal for your statements! I've sent him this reply: ------------------------------- Hi [let's keep him anonymous], I think first you should make up your mind and define why you graduate at all: For Mummy and Daddy? Or for yourself? In the latter case you should try and write a project on your own. The purpose of academic studies is not a fine degree, but to learn as much as possible. There are several open source projects about audio steganography. You could their documentation and understand the concepts. Once you got the basic ideas, you'll be able to develop your own algorithm. PCM Wave and MP3 are very different file formats. You can either write two programs, or make up a wave stego method that survives MP3 compression. As I'm a beginner and still years away from my first graduation project, I asked a few experts how to deal with you. All of them said, sending you a complete project would be counterproductive. You cannot deliver a program that you don't fully understand. Here are their statements: [Link to CodeProject] Have Fun, coco ------------------------------- I hope he'll take "Have Fun" by the word and start coding for fun... :rolleyes:
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Thank you lal for your statements! I've sent him this reply: ------------------------------- Hi [let's keep him anonymous], I think first you should make up your mind and define why you graduate at all: For Mummy and Daddy? Or for yourself? In the latter case you should try and write a project on your own. The purpose of academic studies is not a fine degree, but to learn as much as possible. There are several open source projects about audio steganography. You could their documentation and understand the concepts. Once you got the basic ideas, you'll be able to develop your own algorithm. PCM Wave and MP3 are very different file formats. You can either write two programs, or make up a wave stego method that survives MP3 compression. As I'm a beginner and still years away from my first graduation project, I asked a few experts how to deal with you. All of them said, sending you a complete project would be counterproductive. You cannot deliver a program that you don't fully understand. Here are their statements: [Link to CodeProject] Have Fun, coco ------------------------------- I hope he'll take "Have Fun" by the word and start coding for fun... :rolleyes:
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Prepare for hate mail... :suss:
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Hello fellow CPians, my spam filter removed this mail from my inbox, so I received it two days late. Anyway, am I an a**hole not to answer? ---------------------------------- My name is [let's keep him anonymous], I'm a final year college student. I'm doing a stegangography project for my final test. I'm using Visual Basic 2005 software. I'ts steganography using wav and mp3 files and choosen text file as message. I still having problem until right now. I'm so confused. I can't make the program. I realy need your help, 'cause if I can't make it, I can't graduate and I can't make my parents proud of me. I hope you can help me about it. Please send me the program to my mail at [let's keep him anonymous]@yahoo.co.uk Thanks a lot, ----------------------------------
- This poor boy has studied computer science. (FYI, I just began to study part-time at a distance university, doing a full-time job at daylight. If I'll finish by bachelor degree at all, it'll be in about four years.)
- Though he should be a professional, he uses VB (no offense meant, honestly...) and he's not able to put his concrete problem into words.
- His main problem is not that he cannot start a job or something else related to programming/graduating, but that Mummy and Daddy won't be proud of him. (If I were religious, I'd say "Oh my god...")
I'd love to tell him that the purpose of a graduation project is to show that he can do a whole project on his own. I'd love to tell him that he needs to learn and graduate for himself, not for his parents. But ... I think I'll just send him a complete C# project that "hides" data in WAV so that it stays readable after MP3 compression and decompression. I have it here on my harddisk. Wrote it a while back as a gimmick to a short story which deals about some freaks using stego via file sharing. The stego waves sound horrible, just like a radio transmission with heavy noise, but maybe he'll like it.
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I never knew you'd post my email publicly and humiliate me like this. :(( ;P
Please leave us our small pleasures, they are small, but they are ours! - Mycroft Holmes ^ .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Microsoft MVP - Visual C++[^]
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I never knew you'd post my email publicly and humiliate me like this. :(( ;P
Please leave us our small pleasures, they are small, but they are ours! - Mycroft Holmes ^ .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Microsoft MVP - Visual C++[^]
Shut up and go back to your homework! :laugh:
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
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Thank you lal for your statements! I've sent him this reply: ------------------------------- Hi [let's keep him anonymous], I think first you should make up your mind and define why you graduate at all: For Mummy and Daddy? Or for yourself? In the latter case you should try and write a project on your own. The purpose of academic studies is not a fine degree, but to learn as much as possible. There are several open source projects about audio steganography. You could their documentation and understand the concepts. Once you got the basic ideas, you'll be able to develop your own algorithm. PCM Wave and MP3 are very different file formats. You can either write two programs, or make up a wave stego method that survives MP3 compression. As I'm a beginner and still years away from my first graduation project, I asked a few experts how to deal with you. All of them said, sending you a complete project would be counterproductive. You cannot deliver a program that you don't fully understand. Here are their statements: [Link to CodeProject] Have Fun, coco ------------------------------- I hope he'll take "Have Fun" by the word and start coding for fun... :rolleyes:
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If he follows the link, he will get the source that you linked to in one of the threads above. Oh well, I guess that will require him to do atleast a little work.
Mike Lasseter
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Hello fellow CPians, my spam filter removed this mail from my inbox, so I received it two days late. Anyway, am I an a**hole not to answer? ---------------------------------- My name is [let's keep him anonymous], I'm a final year college student. I'm doing a stegangography project for my final test. I'm using Visual Basic 2005 software. I'ts steganography using wav and mp3 files and choosen text file as message. I still having problem until right now. I'm so confused. I can't make the program. I realy need your help, 'cause if I can't make it, I can't graduate and I can't make my parents proud of me. I hope you can help me about it. Please send me the program to my mail at [let's keep him anonymous]@yahoo.co.uk Thanks a lot, ----------------------------------
- This poor boy has studied computer science. (FYI, I just began to study part-time at a distance university, doing a full-time job at daylight. If I'll finish by bachelor degree at all, it'll be in about four years.)
- Though he should be a professional, he uses VB (no offense meant, honestly...) and he's not able to put his concrete problem into words.
- His main problem is not that he cannot start a job or something else related to programming/graduating, but that Mummy and Daddy won't be proud of him. (If I were religious, I'd say "Oh my god...")
I'd love to tell him that the purpose of a graduation project is to show that he can do a whole project on his own. I'd love to tell him that he needs to learn and graduate for himself, not for his parents. But ... I think I'll just send him a complete C# project that "hides" data in WAV so that it stays readable after MP3 compression and decompression. I have it here on my harddisk. Wrote it a while back as a gimmick to a short story which deals about some freaks using stego via file sharing. The stego waves sound horrible, just like a radio transmission with heavy noise, but maybe he'll like it.
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I lived in a neighborhood where I had the only computer and printer so on occasion a few high schoolers I knew would come by looking for their reports to be printed, no big deal. But then one day I came home with a letter attached to my door telling me that I had to type the attached pages and have it printed by the morning. Hrmm, a little callous so I did what any real a** would do: I type the first two paragraphs verbatim and then when on a three page double spaced 10 point font rant about how wrong what he did was directed with the teacher as the primary audience. He didn't actually read it until after he got it back :)
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Hello fellow CPians, my spam filter removed this mail from my inbox, so I received it two days late. Anyway, am I an a**hole not to answer? ---------------------------------- My name is [let's keep him anonymous], I'm a final year college student. I'm doing a stegangography project for my final test. I'm using Visual Basic 2005 software. I'ts steganography using wav and mp3 files and choosen text file as message. I still having problem until right now. I'm so confused. I can't make the program. I realy need your help, 'cause if I can't make it, I can't graduate and I can't make my parents proud of me. I hope you can help me about it. Please send me the program to my mail at [let's keep him anonymous]@yahoo.co.uk Thanks a lot, ----------------------------------
- This poor boy has studied computer science. (FYI, I just began to study part-time at a distance university, doing a full-time job at daylight. If I'll finish by bachelor degree at all, it'll be in about four years.)
- Though he should be a professional, he uses VB (no offense meant, honestly...) and he's not able to put his concrete problem into words.
- His main problem is not that he cannot start a job or something else related to programming/graduating, but that Mummy and Daddy won't be proud of him. (If I were religious, I'd say "Oh my god...")
I'd love to tell him that the purpose of a graduation project is to show that he can do a whole project on his own. I'd love to tell him that he needs to learn and graduate for himself, not for his parents. But ... I think I'll just send him a complete C# project that "hides" data in WAV so that it stays readable after MP3 compression and decompression. I have it here on my harddisk. Wrote it a while back as a gimmick to a short story which deals about some freaks using stego via file sharing. The stego waves sound horrible, just like a radio transmission with heavy noise, but maybe he'll like it.
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Forward the email to the chairman of the CS department at his uni. Cheating is cheating; we dn't need him in the profession.
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CPallini wrote:
Have you written an article about?
There's no article, because I'd feel embarrassed to deliver an algorithm that produces such results. The noise in the stego sounds is very audible. You can download the C# source, if you want to play with my toy: http://binary-universe.net/etc/WhiteNoise_7.zip[^] As you know, a signed wave has positive and negative peaks. The program finds those peaks and swaps them. A positive peak means 0 and a negative peak means 1. That means, though the + and - peaks should be alternating, the program produces zero points with + or - cycles at both sides. Such a point produces a scratching noise in the speaker that reminds of radio station being quite far away. An MP3 compressor removes certain frequencies and so on, but it doesn't change the wave's phase. That's why the +/- swapped peaks stay alive.
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That's neat!Thanks for the code.
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Don't do his homework for him. Go with your first instinct and give the reply you want to. The most I would do is point him in the right direction - give him the website where you found the information to write your program. He will learn much more by doing it himself than by someone else doing his work for him!
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I enjoyed myself waaaaaaaaay too much :laugh: Basically a 3-year drinking binge, couldn't believe I got a 2:1 at the end of it. This years sports alumni weekend was a harsh reminder that I can't take it anymore though :laugh: Was Mike Sanderson (mainly java prof) there during your time?
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
:laugh: Yes most of my friends would probably say similar. I never touched a drop and was usually thought to be amongst the drunkest in any given gathering. Mike Sanderson was indeed there in my time (I bet he doesn't remember it though :laugh: ) He lectured us on Occam and related parallel languages. He wrote an Occam interpretter which worked on a single processor machine but apparently replicated true non deterministic parallelism, scared the hell out of most of the other academics. Does his tounge still wander out of his mouth while he's talking and wave around like an independent animal without seeming to affect his speech? It took a while to get used to that :laugh: Definitely the smartest stoner I've ever met. :)
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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:laugh: Yes most of my friends would probably say similar. I never touched a drop and was usually thought to be amongst the drunkest in any given gathering. Mike Sanderson was indeed there in my time (I bet he doesn't remember it though :laugh: ) He lectured us on Occam and related parallel languages. He wrote an Occam interpretter which worked on a single processor machine but apparently replicated true non deterministic parallelism, scared the hell out of most of the other academics. Does his tounge still wander out of his mouth while he's talking and wave around like an independent animal without seeming to affect his speech? It took a while to get used to that :laugh: Definitely the smartest stoner I've ever met. :)
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
Yup he's still got the same voice. In one lecture I decided to write down every word that got "emphasised" to see if it was some sort of hidden message, turns out it wasn't :laugh: 9am lectures with him are the worst, when he shouts a word it's a real shock to the system, especially over LTB6/7's sound system.
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
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Yup he's still got the same voice. In one lecture I decided to write down every word that got "emphasised" to see if it was some sort of hidden message, turns out it wasn't :laugh: 9am lectures with him are the worst, when he shouts a word it's a real shock to the system, especially over LTB6/7's sound system.
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
I have to admit I seldom made it a 9am lecture but I can imagine :laugh: I don't remember much a sound system although I suppose they had one in LTB6/7. I guess they must have a had a refit or two since my day. Do the 'black guard' still patrol the campus when they can bothered and is the mighty Claus still in charge of the SU Bar? :-D
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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I have to admit I seldom made it a 9am lecture but I can imagine :laugh: I don't remember much a sound system although I suppose they had one in LTB6/7. I guess they must have a had a refit or two since my day. Do the 'black guard' still patrol the campus when they can bothered and is the mighty Claus still in charge of the SU Bar? :-D
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
Matthew Faithfull wrote:
Do the 'black guard' still patrol the campus when they can bothered and is the mighty Claus still in charge of the SU Bar?
Think too much time may have passed for that, neither ring a bell, but a canadian prof who looks suspiciously like Santa Claus taught C++ :laugh: In the 3 years I was there, Level2 was just refitted, the underground has had a full overhaul costing the SU a bomb, so much so that they can't afford to run the best feature of the new underground... the air conditioning :laugh: So it's still a sweaty pit in there on fridays, also the SU bar is supposed to be getting a refit this summer. Another new thing is the second LTB building, the "tin can" built by the car park. It was a much nicer place to have the graduation ceremony, I heard is used to be squeezed in the main LTB.
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
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Hello fellow CPians, my spam filter removed this mail from my inbox, so I received it two days late. Anyway, am I an a**hole not to answer? ---------------------------------- My name is [let's keep him anonymous], I'm a final year college student. I'm doing a stegangography project for my final test. I'm using Visual Basic 2005 software. I'ts steganography using wav and mp3 files and choosen text file as message. I still having problem until right now. I'm so confused. I can't make the program. I realy need your help, 'cause if I can't make it, I can't graduate and I can't make my parents proud of me. I hope you can help me about it. Please send me the program to my mail at [let's keep him anonymous]@yahoo.co.uk Thanks a lot, ----------------------------------
- This poor boy has studied computer science. (FYI, I just began to study part-time at a distance university, doing a full-time job at daylight. If I'll finish by bachelor degree at all, it'll be in about four years.)
- Though he should be a professional, he uses VB (no offense meant, honestly...) and he's not able to put his concrete problem into words.
- His main problem is not that he cannot start a job or something else related to programming/graduating, but that Mummy and Daddy won't be proud of him. (If I were religious, I'd say "Oh my god...")
I'd love to tell him that the purpose of a graduation project is to show that he can do a whole project on his own. I'd love to tell him that he needs to learn and graduate for himself, not for his parents. But ... I think I'll just send him a complete C# project that "hides" data in WAV so that it stays readable after MP3 compression and decompression. I have it here on my harddisk. Wrote it a while back as a gimmick to a short story which deals about some freaks using stego via file sharing. The stego waves sound horrible, just like a radio transmission with heavy noise, but maybe he'll like it.
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Corinna John wrote:
The stego waves sound horrible, just like a radio transmission with heavy noise, but maybe he'll like it.
Firstly, you're too nice, that email would have landed in my deleted folder fairly fast. Secondly, damn you! Now I spent an hour in which I should be doing boring DB data synchroniztion instead trying to figure out how to encode information in an audio file that would be undetectable to the average human ear and yet survive compression :P
I'm largely language agnostic
After a while they all bug me :doh:
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Matthew Faithfull wrote:
Do the 'black guard' still patrol the campus when they can bothered and is the mighty Claus still in charge of the SU Bar?
Think too much time may have passed for that, neither ring a bell, but a canadian prof who looks suspiciously like Santa Claus taught C++ :laugh: In the 3 years I was there, Level2 was just refitted, the underground has had a full overhaul costing the SU a bomb, so much so that they can't afford to run the best feature of the new underground... the air conditioning :laugh: So it's still a sweaty pit in there on fridays, also the SU bar is supposed to be getting a refit this summer. Another new thing is the second LTB building, the "tin can" built by the car park. It was a much nicer place to have the graduation ceremony, I heard is used to be squeezed in the main LTB.
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
Phannon wrote:
a canadian prof who looks suspiciously like Santa Claus taught C++
:-D Dave Lyons, a superb bloke, I expect he's still making gadgets for the disabled in his spare time (except around Christmas obviously :laugh: ). Air conditioning in the underground :omg: . It just wouldn't be the same without being a sweaty pit. They had a smoke machine in there in my day that used to produce smelly off colour smoke generally known as custard. 500 people , 'Goats Don't Shave' on the stage and the floor a 1/4 inch deep in stout in a room full of custard, now those were the days :cool: I'm glad Level 2 survived, they were talking about scrapping it the last I heard. If I started going on about that place and the things that happend there I'd be here till midnight. Anyway its good to know the old place is still fun and it sounds like they're still growing too.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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I am always mildly surprised when someone who is or wishes to be a professional .NET developer spends any time at all trash-talking one of the two main .NET languages. As near as I can tell, VB & C# split about 85% of all .NET jobs more or less equally. Not knowing both, very well, is a foolish choice, unless you just aren't smart enough to handle both. I do know that there are Devs who have all the work they could possibly want and who chose to work in a single language. I respect and admire them. The vast majority of people in our profession are not in that boat and pretending they are is not the best career move one can make. This is, obviously, my opinion, and is worth every penny you paid for it.
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Hello fellow CPians, my spam filter removed this mail from my inbox, so I received it two days late. Anyway, am I an a**hole not to answer? ---------------------------------- My name is [let's keep him anonymous], I'm a final year college student. I'm doing a stegangography project for my final test. I'm using Visual Basic 2005 software. I'ts steganography using wav and mp3 files and choosen text file as message. I still having problem until right now. I'm so confused. I can't make the program. I realy need your help, 'cause if I can't make it, I can't graduate and I can't make my parents proud of me. I hope you can help me about it. Please send me the program to my mail at [let's keep him anonymous]@yahoo.co.uk Thanks a lot, ----------------------------------
- This poor boy has studied computer science. (FYI, I just began to study part-time at a distance university, doing a full-time job at daylight. If I'll finish by bachelor degree at all, it'll be in about four years.)
- Though he should be a professional, he uses VB (no offense meant, honestly...) and he's not able to put his concrete problem into words.
- His main problem is not that he cannot start a job or something else related to programming/graduating, but that Mummy and Daddy won't be proud of him. (If I were religious, I'd say "Oh my god...")
I'd love to tell him that the purpose of a graduation project is to show that he can do a whole project on his own. I'd love to tell him that he needs to learn and graduate for himself, not for his parents. But ... I think I'll just send him a complete C# project that "hides" data in WAV so that it stays readable after MP3 compression and decompression. I have it here on my harddisk. Wrote it a while back as a gimmick to a short story which deals about some freaks using stego via file sharing. The stego waves sound horrible, just like a radio transmission with heavy noise, but maybe he'll like it.
This statement is false.
Don't second-guess the spam filter.