Aja Lapus

Tag: spam

  • E-mushiness: Ham or Spam?

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    I have posted here interesting things I’ve received as spam, but nothing seems to get close to appear ham like this one. It was nevertheless caught by my spam filter, but its idea is so unusual, I just can’t let it pass. It even has a companion Web site that looks legitimate.

  • Spammers Willing to Negotiate?

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    I’ve just received an irrelevant comment on one of my old blog entries, which was both suspicious and intriguing at the same time.

  • Musing #0011

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    A lot of us hate spam, but how do you think human spammers or the people behind robot spammers react to their actions? Do spammers hate receiving spam comments, messages and mails they didn’t send themselves as much as we do?

  • On Nofollow, Spam and Plugins

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    When the search engine giant Google announced that it would implement the rel=”nofollow” directive on its crawlers, most people had hopes it would be the end of comment spam, most especially when search competitors Yahoo! and MSN expressed support for the microformat as well. But, has this initiative from Google done its job?

  • Ituloy Angsulong Spam

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    Now, why would someone comment on one of my non-SEO related entries with the term Ituloy Angsulong linking to their contest entry URI? I guess it’s someone who’s so desperate to win. It seems to me that no one else hates spam more than I do. I’m thankful Akismet really knows spam—even if it is…