Category Archives: spam

mall.montreal.com, whoever you are

Posted on Saturday, 2005 October 22 by Anton

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

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who had “Thursday morning” in the pool?

Posted on Thursday, 2005 September 01 by Anton

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.

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they’re trying to drive me mad

Posted on Saturday, 2005 August 27 by Anton

Got a spam this evening, titled abridge, whose entire content is the word ammunition.

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crickets chirping

Posted on Thursday, 2005 June 16 by Anton

This site’s traffic declined sharply in May; likely because referral spam suddenly went out of style.

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our little medium is all grown up

Posted on Wednesday, 2005 June 08 by Anton

Got a junk call (from 214-279-0990) just now on my mobile telephone. I think it’s my first ever in seven years. In unrelated news, the humidity that was just barely unpleasant earlier today is now coming down as a very … Continue reading →

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where have all the spammers gone?

Posted on Thursday, 2005 May 26 by Anton

This week I saw a sudden decline in two kinds of spam: comment spam on this here blog, and referral spam in my HTTP log. I have not done anything recently to improve filtering.

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it ain’t me, babe!

Posted on Monday, 2005 May 16 by Anton

Some clown is using my address to spam everyone@amherst.edu with what appears to be an account of the bombing of Dresden. Why??

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