In the spamtraps, I found a message from “Elvira” telling me, “It’s awful.” Now I’m waiting for “Tom” and “Crow” to tell me, “It’s terrible.”
Category: Spam
Inner Dragon
Spammers are running out of euphemisms. Seriously, “Release your inner dragon”…?
Email Confusion
Why do people email me to tell me email is down? WHY? What makes them think I’ll receive the message?
Obligatory User Friendly comic (Jan 28, 1999):
Just as confusing: A spammer sent me this urgent message: “We need to remove cupboard, come on!” Uh, yeah, I’ll get right on that…
BlogExplosion Starting to Recover
It looks like the campaign to reclaim BlogExplosion is working! The efforts to bury the forum spam have brought new members into the site, and earlier this week a new administrator appeared on the forums, banning over 55 accounts used by spammers and deleting 13,000 spam posts. This morning, the banner approval I’ve been waiting for since August finally went through.
Things are looking up!
Spamisch
Excerpt from weird mixed German/English comment spam: “Dear me, that evil car sensibly stung out of this suspicious slot tipps.”
Wicked Spammers
Spam subject: Wicked in the Sack. Come on, spammers, leave Elphaba out of this!
CentOS List Hijack
- Pissed off because some a-hole with a centos.org address posted multiple copies of a racist antisemitic diatribe to the CentOS announcement list.
- CentOS sent an apology to lists. Said spammers forged the sender’s address to get past moderation. Look back, name doesn’t match address.