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Here’s an interesting way to fight spam. A screen saver that eats up spammer bandwidth.

A good idea, or a really bad one?

Here’s the /. breakdown (hee!) and the MeFi breakdown.

| Posted by: Kimberly | Link to this post |

This came in a spam promising a free Dell Laptop:

This is a Postmodern Story of the Day:

(I’m loving the way you walk with me so quietly, contentedly.) I don’t know how he found that place. (I’d seen something really weird. : ) I can never describe the walk back to my truck.

I’d seen many of the same things I’ve seen before. I’ll tell you what happened next. What are we going to do tonight? I asked. How embarrassing.

But this was a long road, and should I walk down it, I might never come back. Love what you do and do what you love He wanted to know more. Sounds good to me, I said.

Sounds good to me, I said. Are you getting pieces of this? This is what I like, I’d tell myself. I can never describe the walk back to my truck. (I’m loving the way you walk with me so quietly, contentedly.) YmVybDIyMkB5YWhvby5jb20=

| Posted by: Kimberly | Link to this post |

I’ve added this to my sidebar links:

WWW Robots (also called wanderers or spiders) are programs that traverse pages in the Web by recursively retrieving linked pages. When a spammer’s robot visits your website, blog, discussion forum, etc, they will check all the pages that you link to for email addresses.

Now you can fight back against their robots!

All you have to do is link to this page so that whenever a spammer’s robot scans your page, they will be sucked into this one.

| Posted by: Kimberly | Link to this post |

“shooooow theeem how to wooooooork it”

ooooook theeeen.

| Posted by: Kimberly | Link to this post |

I received this in the mail today:

“I told you to screw off… but NOOOO you just want to keep playing games huh trillionth”

It was spam for a fake university diploma. Kudos for originality.

| Posted by: Kimberly | Link to this post |

I’m enjoying the technique spam evil-doers are using to get passed filters: the art of misdirection through random subjects and crazy spelling. For example:

From: “Victoria Stewart” < ghcqtkifzr@aol.com >
To: xxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com
Subject: classificatory
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 02:00:39 +0500

The only proven metqhod to enhwance the giirth and lenzght of your peznis!

Both of our prosducts will work for you.

1. The best supptlement avaiflable! - Really works!
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and

2. Enharncement Oil - Get stidff as a roack in 60 sechonds!
FINiD IT HnERE

The two progducts woirk great togefther

I’ve been worried about my peznis getting stidff as a roack. It feels like they know me.

| Posted by: Kimberly | Link to this post |

Hello Kimberly,

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(Uvulae Erosion would make a great name for a rock band.)

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