Posts tagged “spam”

Useful junkMar 21, 2008

Fast food menus are the one form of junk mail I actually appreciate. They're geographically targeted and tell me exactly what's available for delivery in my area. What other junk mail do you find genuinely useful?

Importing MovableType into WordPress without commentsJan 17, 2006

I wrote a low-memory PHP CLI script to strip comments from MovableType export files before importing into WordPress, saving me from importing 22MB of spam alongside a mere 400k of actual content.

Final StrawJan 3, 2006

Spam killed the server again. Comments are off, and everyone's moving to WordPress within 30 days. MoveableType is done.

One of the most convincing spams I've seen in agesJul 6, 2005

Got a frighteningly convincing PayPal phishing email today. The tone, look, and serial numbers were spot-on. Only caught it because the recipient address was a spam honeypot, which prompted me to inspect the link more carefully. Stay vigilant.

By the wayApr 27, 2005

Been working on getting comments functional again, but spam remains an unsolvable nightmare. They're technically on, but hidden by default. Enjoy it while it lasts before the spammers inevitably kill the server again.

Meta-spamApr 12, 2005

Received a brilliantly clever piece of spam today: the message is hidden entirely in the whitespace between random characters. The text itself is harmless gibberish. Good luck filtering that one.

Data miningMar 8, 2005

Spam comments in the old database are overloading the server when rebuilding blogs, causing my account to get disabled. Working on a fix for your commenting issues.

Comment fucking spamJan 26, 2005

Fed up with comment spammers taking down my server. Disabling all MT comments until further notice and likely ditching MovableType entirely.

Enough already!Sep 14, 2004

3,000 spam emails in a single day to one address. I've had enough.

Comment spamJul 20, 2004

Got hit by comment spammers across all my MT installs. Check your comments and contact me if you need the anti-spam tools.

I think I'm going to respond to them all like thisFeb 16, 2004

I received a Nigerian scam email and replied in kind: I'm also a dictator's son with locked funds, and if Simeon sends me $1000 to unlock my money, I'll send him the $4000 he needs. Everyone wins!

Okay, so this one's worth mentioning... a black-hat hacker's diary on ZDNet: they paid two...Apr 3, 2001

Interesting ZDNet piece featuring professional scam artists' diaries. They exploit AOL's screen name policy as a spamming springboard. Also, work picked up: converting Excel spreadsheets to Access databases with incompatible formats, which may mean learning VBA.