Archive for Spam
macrodactylous misarchism
Most disappointing spam of the day
Spam subject line: Strange 11-Letter Word That Doubles Your Metabolism Wow! A strange word, a long word, and a word that has an effect on the real world, all in...
Truncated senders
In my mail interface, there's a column showing the name of the sender of the email, but that column isn't very wide. So the mail application truncates long sender names...
Fear no noxious
The other day, Kam and I watched the Lost (season 2) episode titled “The 23rd Psalm.” And she joked, “The 23rd Psalm—isn't that ‘I must not fear; fear is the...
When spambots go awry
Spambots that post comment spam in blogs apparently have a synonym system: they take a piece of text, and they substitute in synonyms for a bunch of the words and...
Spammer names
Still clearing out old comment spam, but close to done. Most of the time, spambots either enter non-name phrases into the Name box or use pretty ordinary names. But I...
economies
Recently saw a spam subject line that I thought said "Succeed in a truth economy." Which brought all sorts of interesting science fictional ideas to mind. Until I saw that...
Best spam subject lines of late
As noted in my main blog, I've been clearing out my spam mailbox lately. Here are some of my favorite subject lines from spam messages I've seen recently. I'm especially...
Keyword spam
My main blog has been receiving a lot of comment spam lately. Annoying, but the upside is that some of the comments are mildly entertaining: they're posted by a spambot...