Category Archives: spam

one at a time

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 December 01 by Anton

Got a spam today (or rather almost got it: Pobox’s filter rejected it) whose Subject line is: abuse, destructPon or wanton takWng of a ljfe. Qt vs a crome no less than burnbng the Mona LFsa, for there Cs always … Continue reading →

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boarders repelled

Posted on Thursday, 2004 November 25 by Anton

Some little while ago, I changed the name of a file used in the comment process, and submission of comments by spambots ceased. Comments are now open, until another wave breaches the battlements. I’m betting that the number of good … Continue reading →

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caught up

Posted on Saturday, 2004 November 06 by Anton

In three weeks I have gone through all fourteen hundred odd entries to this here work in progress, deleted a few, cleaned up the rest, corrected some broken links, given each entry a title (the hardest part), and classified them. … Continue reading →

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fashions change

Posted on Friday, 2004 November 05 by Anton

Some of you are familiar with referral spam. The spammer issues HTTP requests for pages of yours, giving the advertiser’s address as the source of the link; you look at your HTTP log and say to yourself “whoopee, there’s a … Continue reading →

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are they trying to be killfiled?

Posted on Friday, 2004 October 29 by Anton

I’m the gatekeeper for two small mailing-lists. For months now, nearly all the spam submitted to those lists comes from addresses of the form word21word@hotmail.com — e.g. in the latest batch chance21sunbird, church21lorraine, cougars21molly1, pedro21bridge. Why?

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Great English Vowel Shift II

Posted on Saturday, 2004 August 21 by Anton

I am moderator of two lists which received a spam entitled: Nid the chiipaast mads on wab? We gut it! — evidently from a dialect which has lost most of its mid vowels!

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the inherent instability of euphemisms

Posted on Saturday, 2004 August 07 by Anton

I nearly received (but for the grace of Pobox filters, which are very good) a spam entitled more pleasure for you and her erasmus stairwell. Is that what the kids call it these days?

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