Flattering comment spam
It used to be that comment spam was full of nasty remarks. These days, though, it's more often full of...
Archive for Spam
Spambox zero
I get hundreds of pieces of spam email a day; sometimes thousands. It used to be that every couple of...
Still more messed-up spam filtering
We sent out two rejections the other day that got bounce messages from a server between us and the intended...
Spammer + spammer
Two consecutive pieces of spam this morning, which would've been unremarkable except for their juxtaposition: Hello, I know its not...
SH rejections considered spam by some mail systems
We've recently had a spate of queries from authors who use Gmail who haven't received rejections that we've sent them....
Unbiased reviews, paid for by the reviewee
Got an interesting and somewhat amusing piece of spam this morning: Hello, I'm the webmaster of [URL removed by Jed]...
Spam stat
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...
Spam news network
A recent development in email spam subject lines: provocative fake news headlines (often political), some of which are kinda amusing....
This morning’s comment spam
Got interesting comment spam this morning from someone using the name "Robert." He or she posted two comments (one on...
This morning’s best spam
Got spam email this morning addressed to webmaster@[my domain], with subject line "IRS Fears Ron Paul?" I figured it might...
Spammy marriage proposal
Someone I don't know posted a comment here the other day that I thought was kinda interesting, but a little...
Beware of Quechup
A bunch of people are getting email from a new social networking site called Quechup. Unfortunately, as with some other...