230 Posts Tagged "web bad dog"

These web sites should be put in the dog house or sent back to obedience school

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67 Year Old Chinese Spam

Dredged from combing the junk filter folder is evidence that shows some folks have been spamming since 1938, which would be long before Al Gore’s father handed down that Internet idea to his boy: Wow, that old spam sure smells bad! It’s a good thing Thunderbird can spot it from a mile high.

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Self Spamming

For an upcoming presentation, I was doing some random clicking at Blogger to find some tacky or “bad” blog examples (they are out there, stuff you’s not want to be on screen when the boss wanders in). It’s sad how many URLs there are wasted by lik spammers who create Blogger.com sites just to spam […]

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The New Spam Book’s Here!

Borrowing again on my vast array of literary resources, paraphrashing from 1979’s Steve Martin’s The Jerk: Navin C.D.B. Johnson: The new spam book’s here! The new spam book’s here! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity I need! Casino, Pills, and Porn links in my blog! That really makes somebody! Things are going to start […]

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Oxymoron: Master Planned Blogging Communities

Here in the Phoenix area, the housing industry is booming with the roll out of these new “master planned communities”. Physically, these communities are surrounded by high walls and require passing through a security gate to enter, and individual back yards are each walled off. So it looks like Apple Digital Campus Exchange is extending […]

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The Wait Is Over

Just short of 3 weeks converted from my old MovableType blog to this new one running WordPress, and I got my first slice of comment spam. Ewwww, it is pretty smelly, but it just slide easily off the moderation queue into the dung heap. I’ve waited to implement more WP anti-spam plugins, waiting to see […]