Dammit, hurry up and spam me already!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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No seriously, I find myself in the very odd position of hoping the spammers come back soon. Recently my website has been a target for automated “comment spam” (I have my comments set to require my approval to go “live” but it is still a nuisance to go in to find fifty ads for Cialis have been attempted to be posted all across my site.

So today I installed a plugin that is supposed to drastically reduce spam, and I want to see how well it works. So now I have to sit here in the perverse position of hoping they hurry up and attack.

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We get so much spam every day (I check 12 accounts at once, mostly from the same server) that when I go an hour without getting some spam I get nervous that our mail server is down or something.

So I, too, find myself sometimes wishing for spam :slight_smile:

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haha I know that feeling.

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I like it sliced thin, then browned to a nice darker brown, not quite burned, just a bit crispy, on white bread, lightly toasted with some nice dijon.

I’ll send some your way.

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uh, vegetarian here. I’ll take the electronic kind only, thanks.

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Oh, that’s ok then, I’ll send you over a nice mixed green salad and a baguette?

But I think I know what’s for breakfast, I got myself hungry.

Hope you get spammed but good! :stuck_out_tongue:

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Sweet, I’m getting food! Yeah that sounds awesome :slight_smile: Could you throw in some Thai takeout too, or am I pushing my luck now?

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They said delivery takes 45 minutes. I covered the tip too!

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Hell yeah! You rock! sits by the door

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Heh. I’m in the same position, for similar reasons. Being that I had to reinstall Windows last weekend, I have to retrain the Bayesian plugin for SpamPal, so every piece of spam I get I feed to it so it knows the difference between spam and real E-Mail.

In my case though I never have to wait long. I get several dozen pieces a day across 5 accounts.

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When my main email account started getting in the neighborhood of 500+ spams per day I had to give it up. And that’s with server-side spam software installed.

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You aren’t under the impression that Spam is real meat, are you? :wink:

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No, not so much. I sort of think of it as canned squished up dead thing. That’s pretty accurate, right?

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I see that you also run a vB forum. If this is where you are getting the crazy spam (I was flooded with it not long ago) you should try a hack call NoSpam! available at vBulletin.org, it did wonders for me, zero spam so far.

I also dumped communication through email in my site, people can only contact me through a form, verified by NoSpam! too. I still get hundreds of spam per day, the vast majority are caught by the server spam filter, the rest by Firefox. I manually delete about 5 per day. Unfortunately the odd legitimate email gets caught too.

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Opal-

You should talk to me immediately about how to drastically improve your pen-fifteen.

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No, this has nothing to do with my forum. This is via Textpattern, which I use to run opalcat.com

I did get a little spam this afternoon–not much, about half a dozen–but they were marked “hidden as spam” by the plugin! Yay!

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I don’t have a pen15. Well, I guess I kind of do, but I keep it in Ohio at the moment…

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You want spam?

I have about 10 friends who forward every damned email they have ever received, especially those where you have to add your name and forward it on or you will die in four hours. Coincidentally, most of those friends are still using AOL.

I will be happy to put you on their mailing list, as it seems to be the best way to get follow up spam forever and ever.

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DMark, thanks but I’m not talking about email spam. This is spam on my website, through the “comment on this article” feature. So while I would dearly love to be on your irritating people’s mailing list, it wouldn’t really address the problem and so I find I must decline.