Posts tagged with: forest of spam

The Forest of Spam, Part 5

I hate it when spammers don’t even try. This showed up as a comment on my About page: I wouldn’t mind this so much, except for the following: The spammer calls this an email, when this is clearly a comment. My domain will expire in 12 hours, which is not a time spam any legitimate …read more…

The Forest of Spam, Part 4

Just a few things I noticed when looking through my spam folder.

The Forest of Spam, Part 3

Every once in a while I take a close look at some of the messages in my spam folder, because there are some real bits of humor there. Here’s one that tries real hard—and almost succeeds—at not looking like spam: That’s an admirable effort, but let’s face it, Dan: the reason your message ended up …read more…

The Forest of Spam, Part 2

Sometimes the comment spam I get is oddly poetic. Here’s one I recently got on one of my other blogs: “As a transcribe gentleman’s gentleman I liked to predisposition in living soul , carry from it what you can and actively liquidate gain of every moment. Pooped elucidate days in the backyard with his friends …read more…

The Forest of Spam, Part 1

Sometimes I just get tired of dealing with certain things… I use Akismet on all my blogs to deal with comment spam. Even though WordPress automatically adds the nofollow tag to any link in its comments, and therefore those links do absolutely nothing for your SEO, there are still people stupid enough to spam my …read more…