Lately the attempts to spam this blog come disproportionately as comments on posts in the spam category. Hm.

Just for laughs, I’ll approve all comments on this one.

And now I’m getting spammed by Frappr: DOWN CLOTHING from Chino (CA) would like to be your friend and join your Friend Map.

I only bloody joined Frappr because one of my groups wanted to get everyone on the map. See if I fall for that one again.

Sometime in 2005 I received referral spam from:

http://www.rebuildsanmateohighschool.org/casino-gambling.html
http://www.rebuildsanmateohighschool.org/casino-games.html
http://www.rebuildsanmateohighschool.org/online-casino-gambling.html

There’s a certain charm in it, don’t you think?

A spammer asks, “Can you imagine a Silvester without Caviar?”

Well, no, I guess not. What’s a Silvester?

In the past few days I’ve received dozens of robot comments whose only plausible purpose is to see what will get through the filters. Most of them contained exactly three links to well-known entities, most of them in entertainment or news; this could be to test how many links my filter allows before treating a comment as spam.

Thursday: That’s stopped, but now I’m getting some consisting only of links to nonexistent domains.

Why go to the bother of generating referral spam for a page with no content?

A spam this morning (to a list for which I’m gatekeeper) talked about the hurricane, but I couldn’t tell what the payload was. It had a link to a dead domain.