Posts Tagged ‘spam’
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
A (now deleted) comment:
hello , my name is Richard and I know you get a lot of spammy comments, I can help you with this problem. I know a lot of spammers and I will ask them not to post on your site. It will reduce the volume of spam by 30-50%. In return Id like to ask you to put a link to my site on the index page of your site. The link will be small and your visitors will hardly notice it, its just done for higher rankings in search engines. Contact me icq 454528835 or write me tedirectory@yahoo.com, i will give you my site url and you will give me yours if you are interested. thank you
Gee, thanks, Richard! That would be so helpful of you!
Tags: blog, comment, spam
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Monday, August 6th, 2007
Tags: email, spam
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Saturday, March 17th, 2007
There was some low-level kvetching on a Wordpress blog that Akismet was marking too many false positive comments as spam. Concerned, I trolled through all 11 pages of spam - and didn’t find one real comment.
Tags: akismet, spam, wordpress
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
If your bayesian filter’s no longer doing it for you, zap its database. Sure, you get a couple of days of false positives you have to watch out for, but all those penny-stock scams and “hi, it’s no-one you know” e-mails disappear again. No point in having your filter sticking to the old ways when the spammers and scammers have moved on to new methods.
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Monday, July 4th, 2005
I placed a new and valid e-mail address on my blog on Friday, July 1st, 02005 at 13:55:59. On Sunday, July 3rd, 02005 at 11:03:43, I received a spam e-mail from MiddleEastTenders@tender234.com, subject Qatar Tenders. That’s a few hours shy of two days, from post to spam.
Those spammers certainly don’t hang around. I wasn’t expecting it to be that quick. Conclusion of this story? Don’t ever let anyone publish your e-mail address on the web, ever.
Tags: email, spam
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Friday, July 1st, 2005
I’ll explain later…
olaf@scruss.com
Tags: email, spam, test
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Saturday, October 23rd, 2004
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Tuesday, September 28th, 2004
Hooray! I got my first bit of comment spam on this blog. This means two things:
- my blog is being found on search engines.
- WordPress is being used by enough people to make blog spamming worthwhile.
Of course, I’m not going to let any through, but it’s a wee piece of serendipity while I’m waiting for the furnace repair person to come.
Tags: spam
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Friday, January 16th, 2004
Got one yesterday: “secular dixie godmother”. I think I own several of their CDs.
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Saturday, August 30th, 2003
Browsing through an old mail address’s cluttered inbox, I came across a message touting EnviroMission’s Solar Tower technology. (Site warning: annoying flash graphics.)
I’ve always been dubious of this idea — basically, build a big transparent canopy somewhere really hot, and exhaust the hot air through turbines at the base of an enormous concrete tower — but to get spam from them is quite the limit.
Stuff like this doesn’t help the renewables industry. We’re building reliable machines that fit into a dependable power infrastructure. Fly-by-night spamming seriously damages the entire industry’s image.
Tags: renewable, spam
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