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I get hundreds of pieces of spam email a day; sometimes thousands. It used to be that every couple of... (More...)

23 February 2010, 12:16 PM | Comments (1)

We sent out two rejections the other day that got bounce messages from a server between us and the intended... (More...)

25 November 2009, 1:49 AM | Comments (0)

Two consecutive pieces of spam this morning, which would've been unremarkable except for their juxtaposition: Hello, I know its not... (More...)

22 October 2009, 8:56 AM | Comments (3)

We've recently had a spate of queries from authors who use Gmail who haven't received rejections that we've sent them.... (More...)

5 July 2009, 9:34 PM | Comments (0)

Got an interesting and somewhat amusing piece of spam this morning: Hello, I'm the webmaster of [URL removed by Jed]... (More...)

30 November 2008, 9:16 AM | Comments (0)

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...)

3 September 2008, 1:17 AM | Comments (0)

A recent development in email spam subject lines: provocative fake news headlines (often political), some of which are kinda amusing.... (More...)

11 July 2008, 11:50 PM | Comments (0)

Got interesting comment spam this morning from someone using the name "Robert." He or she posted two comments (one on... (More...)

1 July 2008, 10:07 AM | Comments (0)

Got spam email this morning addressed to webmaster@[my domain], with subject line "IRS Fears Ron Paul?" I figured it might... (More...)

26 October 2007, 10:38 AM | Comments (4)

Someone I don't know posted a comment here the other day that I thought was kinda interesting, but a little... (More...)

22 October 2007, 10:10 AM | Comments (1)

A bunch of people are getting email from a new social networking site called Quechup. Unfortunately, as with some other... (More...)

2 September 2007, 1:49 AM | Comments (7)

Email spam had reached more or less a steady state for me for a while, but things have suddenly escalated... (More...)

27 June 2007, 8:03 AM | Comments (6)

Today, over the course of about 7 hours, my journal received over 500 pieces of comment spam that got through... (More...)

12 June 2007, 12:44 AM | Comments (5)

I'm not really sure what to make of this. There've been half a dozen times in the past month when... (More...)

21 May 2007, 8:57 AM | Comments (8)

Got an amusing piece of spam this morning--though I imagine it's not so amusing to people who don't know much... (More...)

8 March 2007, 10:21 AM | Comments (5)

Sorry so out of touch lately. I have dozens of things I want to post about, as always, but somehow... (More...)

1 November 2006, 12:46 AM | Comments (3)

I've been meaning to mention for a couple weeks that I seem to have found a good solution, for now... (More...)

18 June 2006, 9:34 AM | Comments (1)

I get a whole lot of spam that claims to be from PayPal and says my account has been blocked... (More...)

29 March 2006, 9:41 AM | Comments (8)

A couple of notes about my recent comment spam experiences: MT 3.2 continues to have the same pros and cons... (More...)

5 November 2005, 12:06 AM | Comments (1)

Here's another piece of advice for writers. (Or anyone else, but writers are who I see doing this.) When you're... (More...)

30 October 2005, 12:10 AM | Comments (1)

I regularly get spam from webmasters asking me to participate in a link exchange; their site has nothing to do... (More...)

18 October 2005, 9:36 AM | Comments (2)

And of course hours after I posted that last entry, I got hit by the biggest wave of comment spam... (More...)

19 July 2005, 9:14 AM | Comments (2)

Noted in passing: got spam this morning from one Ereshkigal Browne. Who knew that the goddess of the underworld had... (More...)

10 May 2005, 8:59 AM | Comments (1)