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November 24, 2004

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I am "suffering" through a very weird spam campaign that's going on right now. Every day there are two or three spam comments left...the exact same IP address...but no links. The "name" field is always filled with something like "buy contact lenses online", but there's no URL there. I've been automatically deleting it, but recently started paying attention to the body of the comments. Whoever the spammer is, he's including some pretty cool aphorisms, perhaps as a way of attempting to camouflage his spam...?

Here's todays:

There are more fools in the world than there are people. Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)

I might end up not deleting these...

Rev. Misa, what do you think?

Posted by Nathan at 07:31 AM | Comments (2)
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I have occasionally saved some of these messages, as well as the ones that are (seemingly?) nonsensical dada-like messages, as well as the ones that are just random word lists - today I started copying the good parts and pasting them into one notepad file... cool stuff! I did a little googling, and discovered that there are databases of random aphorisms available... am now off to see if I can hook into one...

Posted by: Drew at April 8, 2005 06:48 PM

Also, I have a copy of a very cool article called "Spam for the soul" by Roy Rivenburg, an LA Times writer (I believe), which you could probably google for, or you could email me at drewsy@together.net (at least that is my email address until May 2005)... and I would send you a copy. I just suddenly got very interested in trying to figure out what was going on, tonight... googling got me to your blog...

Posted by: Drew at April 8, 2005 07:00 PM
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