I’m trying a different way to deter spambots from trying to post junk about their usual casino websites and “texas-hold ’em” links. My weblog was getting hammered lately so I had to tighten my comment moderation. It was always one of my posts getting hit. I closed the ability to post comments to that one [...]
Looks like I’ll have to come up with some other form of blacklisting to get rid of spam in the form of comments. Lately it seems that one of my posts in particular keeps getting spammed. This has caused me to start some comment moderation. Well at least it doesn’t get much spam in it. [...]
There has been a strangely increasing amount of spam with virus attachments sent to my email. I’ve gotten more of these emails within the last few days than I’ve ever got before. 2 additional yesterday and 2 more just today. They didn’t effect or infect me. This time attachments with file the names: Manufacture.zlv Alive_condom.com [...]
I got a few funny emails recently. Too funny for words and an obvious attempt at forging, spoofing and phishing! Here’s one: Hello user of Eklectik.com e-mail server, Your e-mail account has been temporary disabled because of unauthorized access. For more information see the attached file. Kind regards, The Eklectik.com team http://www.eklectik.com Ha! The [...]
I got and e-mail Monday. The text reads (it did not have a subject, mind you): tu parle rancais, je ne vais pas t’agresser. Je suis le proprietaire du mot EKLECTIK; il faut que tu m’expiques le comment du pourquoi Google (and Altavista’s Babel Fish) translates it to this from French: you speaks rancais, I [...]
O.K. I’m going to delete the 2 comments left to my weblog that are apparent spam. “Nice article.” and “More comment please? ” for persons who are leaving their URL web address as discounted life insurance companies and mailing companies can’’t be good. One word. SPAM! Both of these were left to the same entry [...]
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David Bowie — I Have Not Been to Oxford Town Meat Beat Manifesto — Luminol 
Advent Sleep — Lookaway My Love 
Plastique Noir — Creep Show 
Lacrimosa — Satura Xmal Deutschland — Polarlicht 
Opera Multi Steel — Tes lèvres, un abat-son Pretty Balanced — Simon's Sleeping [Live] Red House Painters — Grace Cathedral Park Makaras Pen — Falling Deeper Siouxsie and the Banshees — El Dia de Los Muertos Rasputina — In Old Yellow Cake Type O Negative — Creepy Green Light Siouxsie and the Banshees — Scarecrow Type O Negative — Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All) View more of my playlist.
An example of really bad marketing: spam is rude
Some idiot bombarded my weblog with 44 copies of the same comment to one of my post yesterday. This is the main part of the comment that was left: This is an automatic test probe for demonstrates that it’s possible to break trencaspammers captcha plugin for WP and this plugin does not serve for anything, [...]