The user’s website was a porn link, but the comment they tried to leave was priceless: Hi, friends! Thank you for this forum. I have underlied a lot of useful infomation for me. I have a question: can i ssppaamm in this topic ny sites to ads they? Sorry, if I made the mistake, when [...]
Posts Tagged ‘spam’
Hilarious comment spam
Posted: 28 January 2009 by Jason Adams in UncategorizedTags: evil, sneaky html, spam
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Pernicious Spam
Posted: 4 December 2008 by Jason Adams in UncategorizedTags: facebook, friendster, spam, usc
The spammers have been working hard to infiltrate Facebook. I just got this (below) today, and it tripped my mental spam alarm. These sorts of messages were commonplace on Friendster. I would get messages from girls with near-pornographic profile pictures wanting to chat or asking me inane questions like which was the better hair color. [...]
Cuil Fail
Posted: 28 July 2008 by Jason Adams in UncategorizedTags: blagoblag, cuil, fail, google, search engines, spam, startups
The blagoblag is abuzz with word of cuil, a search engine launched by some former Google engineers. After many hours of downtime, I was able to check it out a short while ago. The unfortunate result: it blows. It’s so bad that it’s as bad as your brain can comprehend. Supposedly there are three times [...]
Spam of the Day 2008-04-08
Posted: 8 April 2008 by Jason Adams in UncategorizedTags: cufflinks, sotd, spam
Bah, more spa — wait just a second! Cufflinks! Sweet!
Free IQ Tests
Posted: 22 February 2008 by Jason Adams in UncategorizedTags: free crap, iq tests, spam
It seems to me that the first question on any free online IQ test is whether to take the test. You automatically fail to achieve high marks if your answer is yes (take the test).
Spam of the Day 2008-02-10
Posted: 10 February 2008 by Jason Adams in UncategorizedTags: gmail, spam, spam filtering, spam of the day, word frequencies
“polyteny” Definition: the state where a cell contains all polytene chromosomes. [source] One common tactic in spamming is to use words whose frequencies in English are really low. Frequent spamming words are easily detected and so if an email contains the words “viagra” and “pharmacy,” the chances of it being spam are really high. Words [...]
Spam of the Day 2008-02-08
Posted: 8 February 2008 by Jason Adams in UncategorizedTags: spam, spam of the day
“Prestigious Christmas gifts for only the dearest people!” Hey, I want a prestigious Christmas gift! I’m stuck with lousy, disreputable gifts. I guess I’m not one of the elite “dearest.”
Spam of the Day 2008-02-07
Posted: 7 February 2008 by Jason Adams in UncategorizedTags: cmu, gmail, robert jordan, spam, spam of the day, wheel of time, word salad
I go through my spam everyday to make sure that false positives don’t get deleted. For whatever reason, stuff coming from the Help Desk at CMU gets labeled as spam a lot. I’m not saying it sounds like word salad (*cough*), but it trips off gmail’s spam sensors. The good thing about gmail is a [...]
Creative Commons
Posted: 14 December 2007 by Jason Adams in UncategorizedTags: copyright, creative commons, licensing, spam, spam blogs
D’Arcy Norman has a great post on the Creative Commons license and why to choose only CC:By rather than some of the stricter licenses. This blog has been using CC:By since I began it, so it was nice to see someone with similar sensibilities putting out a much clearer statement of why it’s a good [...]
