A “good word attack” is what happens when a spam e-mail firm idenfies words considered “strongly legitimate” by spam filters, and uses strings of these words to attack e-mail in-boxes.  A paper describing the practice is noted in issue #126 of Whiteboard Report.  We went to our logs and found these recent good word attacks on the NSDL server:

Farm Patrick Their Sun-drenched Left
Window Aeroplane Alphabet Teeth Car-race Cycle Feather
Skeleton Button Eraser Umbrella Airforce
Bible Button Map Sun Backpack
Milk Bank Shoes Circus Saddle Radar Chess Board
Necklace Torpedo Butterfly Sandpaper Web Robot Girl
Robot Leather Jacket Clown Car Onion
Live Get Fresh-picked In The And
Desk Cappuccino Fork Chess Board Meat
Staircase Feather Insect Bathtub Milkshake
Bee Treadmill Meat Carpet Airforce
Prison Child Record Cycle Planet

These attcks make us wonder:  has Ezra Pound come back as a spammer?