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I think it's interesting that so much spam is phrased in terms of heterosexual men making themselves better lovers. A... (More...)
I think it's interesting that so much spam is phrased in terms of heterosexual men making themselves better lovers. A... (More...)
Today's best spam starts out thusly: Hello, my name is Jason Carter and I am an Internet Rankings Engineer. I... (More...)
If you have a certain type of self-hosted blog (see below), I recommend doing a quick Google search for various... (More...)
Just got an odd piece of email spam. Google Translate says it's Latvian, and it claims to be from an... (More...)
I've been getting notes in email lately from spammers offering to write guest posts in my blog. The latest one... (More...)
For the moment, comments in my blog are working. But at any time, the spambots could hit the comment script... (More...)
Last week, the spambots hit my blog in force. Thousands of spam comments in a short period; enough of a... (More...)
Just discovered that a comment on my blog from Ted the other day got marked as spam by the TypePad... (More...)
A recent flood of comment spam has led to my turning off comments on this blog temporarily, until I figure... (More...)
I used to see stats that said something like 10% of all people browsing the web didn't have JavaScript enabled.... (More...)
I've been remiss in deleting spam from my moderated-comments queue in the past month-plus; as of yesterday, there were over... (More...)
It used to be that comment spam was full of nasty remarks. These days, though, it's more often full of... (More...)
I get hundreds of pieces of spam email a day; sometimes thousands. It used to be that every couple of... (More...)
We sent out two rejections the other day that got bounce messages from a server between us and the intended... (More...)
Two consecutive pieces of spam this morning, which would've been unremarkable except for their juxtaposition: Hello, I know its not... (More...)
We've recently had a spate of queries from authors who use Gmail who haven't received rejections that we've sent them.... (More...)
Got an interesting and somewhat amusing piece of spam this morning: Hello, I'm the webmaster of [URL removed by Jed]... (More...)
I've (reluctantly, and for the time being) shifted over to using Apple's Mail.app exclusively--Eudora was too crashy, and Odysseus won't... (More...)
A recent development in email spam subject lines: provocative fake news headlines (often political), some of which are kinda amusing.... (More...)
Got interesting comment spam this morning from someone using the name "Robert." He or she posted two comments (one on... (More...)
Got spam email this morning addressed to webmaster@[my domain], with subject line "IRS Fears Ron Paul?" I figured it might... (More...)
Someone I don't know posted a comment here the other day that I thought was kinda interesting, but a little... (More...)
A bunch of people are getting email from a new social networking site called Quechup. Unfortunately, as with some other... (More...)
Email spam had reached more or less a steady state for me for a while, but things have suddenly escalated... (More...)
Today, over the course of about 7 hours, my journal received over 500 pieces of comment spam that got through... (More...)
I'm not really sure what to make of this. There've been half a dozen times in the past month when... (More...)
Got an amusing piece of spam this morning--though I imagine it's not so amusing to people who don't know much... (More...)
Sorry so out of touch lately. I have dozens of things I want to post about, as always, but somehow... (More...)
I've been meaning to mention for a couple weeks that I seem to have found a good solution, for now... (More...)
I get a whole lot of spam that claims to be from PayPal and says my account has been blocked... (More...)
A couple of notes about my recent comment spam experiences: MT 3.2 continues to have the same pros and cons... (More...)
Here's another piece of advice for writers. (Or anyone else, but writers are who I see doing this.) When you're... (More...)
I regularly get spam from webmasters asking me to participate in a link exchange; their site has nothing to do... (More...)
And of course hours after I posted that last entry, I got hit by the biggest wave of comment spam... (More...)
Noted in passing: got spam this morning from one Ereshkigal Browne. Who knew that the goddess of the underworld had... (More...)