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20140416

Our Biggest Fan: SPAM


Spam. We all get it. Most of it is caught and diverted by filters; others we can delete merely from reading the subject line. Some, we have to actually read into to determine it is an unsolicited pitch by email. Spam.

By some accounts, spam comprises nearly half of the millions of emails circulating daily. In recent years however, there is a rising popularity among spammers to do their carnival barking in the comment section of a blog.

In the article “How Spam Works” Marshal Brain enlightens us on the subject; where it comes from, how much there is, what is being done and other things.

For a few weeks this spot will show some of the sillier messages found in blogger comment spam. These will be quoted exactly, grammar, punctuation, spelling and content bungles included.

Here is today's exciting example.

From a post about identifying some aircraft in old photographs:

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2 Comments:

  • At Wednesday, April 16, 2014 4:02:00 PM, Blogger Alex Daw said…

    I am so over spam. I don't know what it was that I must have clicked on last week but my inbox is now full of the stuff....soooo annoying that I'm thinking of changing my email address ...sigh.

     
  • At Wednesday, April 16, 2014 4:51:00 PM, Blogger anyjazz said…

    Thanks Alex Daw. I have been lucky in recent years. I have one email address that I use for family and close friends. For all the rest I use Yahoo.com. Yahoo has a marvelous spam filter and rarely misses. When ever an email is needed online for ANYTHING, I use the Yahoo address.

     

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