10,124 spams blocked
Cats: Uncategorized|I planned to go big on the eve of my 10,000th spam message.
I wanted to post that message and celebrate with you. I was going to have colourful balloons, fortified wine and potato salad left over from last summer. Mmmmm.
But alas, I forgot. You know, stupid things like work, little typists, sleep. These things always get in the way.
Today I discovered that my milestone had come and gone. I’m now at 10,124 spam. Apparently a lot of Hamster Cage sites think my blog is “very interesting.” Naughty sites of every description, taste and orientation invite me to visit their sites for some “interesting information.”
And then there are the hair products sites, promising me more hair, better hair, interesting hair. Or just hair.
Occasionally, as Dick discovered, legitimate commentators end up in the digital junk heap.
But the real hero of this story is the modern spam filter, without which we’d all be doomed to the hamster cage heap of obscurity.
December 4th, 2008 at 11:45 am
What, you don’t get “most urgent, your reply is crucial” from the Ivory Coast and Paris? What about the “hot singles in your area?” They’re urgently waiting on you, along with the “hot foreclosures” and the “hot single foreclosed prescription diplomas.”
December 4th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Indeed, I was (am) considered as spam. I kinda feel for the guy with the hotmail address I’m using who is getting spammed by Gifted Typist ‘responses’…unless they end up in his spam folder.
December 4th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
I want to redirect my spam to go back to rogers….
December 4th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Looking at what’s in a spam filter is a bit like looking at what’s caught by the plastic thingy that blocks hair from going down the tub drain. Ewww comes to mind.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:59 am
I hear fried spam sandwiches are pretty good. Did you save yours?
December 10th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Cormac, I’ve had some hot singles proposals but I think yours are hotter.
Dick, yes you are spam. They should put you in a can and sing about you on Monty Python
Espanya, yes, cuz you pay for it.
Cube, Snort. That’s brilliant
Barbara, no but I saved mine for you. Shall I send by post or email?