Oh Gary. Sending out blog comment spam must be wearying if a professional like you manages to miss a rather clear statement that appears in the footer of every page on this blog. Here, as promised, is your treatment. This infestation began 2 weeks ago. Date: Wed, Aug 15, 9:30 AM From: Gary <email redacted@gmail.com> […]
creative commons licensed ( BY-NC-SA ) flickr photo shared by maol Frequent words I heard as a kid was reminding me of my household chore– “TAKE OUT THE TRASH!!!” I’m finally getting around to doing it regularly. Even with Akismet running on this blog, I have seen it accumulate more than 1000 trapped spams per […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Ben Brown I’ve railed for many a year about the fetid scourge of blogs, rampant bombardment of irrelevant, unwanted garbage comments laden with nefarious links, all seeking to increase google rank. Can this be turning? Should I believe in the tooth fairy who says Google […]
cc licensed ( BY ND ) flickr photo shared by gurms Hello, @twitter. A little spam is treatable. Block, report. But it keeps coming back, like pesky roaches. I agree with @timmmmyboy – why is there not even a little bit of logic applied at the door? Here is the most easy kind of twitter […]
I am not a happy pup. The volume of blog comment spam coming into my quiet little dog house is has reached DEFCON 4 on the scale of annoyance. So I am taking action against one company, Ubiquity Server Solutions which coddles spammers (see the updates and comments below- I cannot stand by this initial […]
I regret I don’t know Russian since I cannot read about 60% of my blog comments, but among the rest, I get so many nice things that people say! It really warms my heart that people can be so kind, they even say things that are not relevant to my blog posts. Your website came […]
No Respect for Stupid Spammers by cogdogblog posted 11 Aug ’08, 8.41am MDT PST on flickr Important URLs (mine) and unimportant ones (spammers) deliberately blurred. All other identification left readable intentionally Well, I doubt I would ever use the word "respect" in proximity of "spammer", but I am at least a tiny bit less turned […]
I only like email spam when it is creatively subtle in cleverness– this one comes close. In this sneaky approach, the email references victims of Nigerian spammers with a supposed offer to submit for reimbursement courtesy of the government of Nigeria and the United Nations. So if you were really moronic enough to fall for […]
Considering the blog post immediately before this one drew a link farm spam trackback in near real time, I am testing them to see how quickly they pick this one up. The site that spammed ne is purportedly called “Social Networking News for Myspace / Facebook / Etc.” but is composed entirely of blog post […]
01 roach flick treatment posted 29 Sep ’05, 4.19am MDT PST on flickr A nightmare. Reoccuring. I was cleaning off my Edirol of old files and forget I had recorded this phone spam. I get recurring automated message calls on my do not call listed work number- they leave no number, so its hard to […]
