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CDB Entry: Sigh, No News From Phentermine Spammer

Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:12:07 -0700

Well it has been 3 days since I yelled out "Hey Phentermine Pusher: You Left Your Roach Prints in Our Spam Honey Pot" seeking this person to reach out by email, say hello, and claim their prowess. I even offered...

comment by: John Dowdell

Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:51:15 -0700

"If you are out there, Oh Mighty, Powerful, Clever, Endowed Ph*ent-erm*ne Spammer, how about shedding some light on the glory of your works?"

My works are many, and profound, they light up the universe with vibrant upstanding... whoa, hold it Alan, you trance'd me into some projection there, wacky..... ;-)

I ran across chongqed.org today, and it seems useful... they basically encourage damaged bloggers and wiki-ers to link spam attacks back to their site... turning the tables on the spammers via their own means. Useful to you...?

jd/mm

comment by: Alan Levine

Thu, 16 Dec 2004 22:34:53 -0700

Hola JD, it is always nice to cross paths again. Maybe I was summoning you after all!

FYI, On a spur of the lark visit to Macromedia in 1995 or 1996, John got me on the beta test of the very first version of Shockwave, the first macomedia multimedia technology for the web browser-- it kept me busy in my "nojava" shop:
http://zircon.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/alan/nojava/

I think I have zipped past of furled chongqed a few weeks ago-- it is an interesting approach, but does not seem workable in the long haul. It takes a lot of time to assemble the info for a submission (I just spent 10 minutes doing one spammed wiki page), and you still end up clutttering your content by mention of spammers.

I am still holding out for a magical death ray gun.