B&P is the lucky recipient of about 200–400 spam emails a day. They keep trying to get sneakier and sneakier. One of their tactics is to copy a regular commenter’s recent comment and add the line “I forgot to tell you I love the blog” or something similar. Most of the time I catch that quickly because the new comment doesn’t have the avatar of the regular reader and just looking at the link they provide is usually the tell–all. Here’s an example:
A quick glance might tell me that this comment from B&P reader ”Infidel” accidentally went to the spam filter. But when I look at the link… well, with Infidel you can never be sure. But I can also see the commenter’s email address (which you guys can’t) and I know that’s not our Infidel’s email address.
Sometimes I’ll scan through the spam folder but sometimes I just delete it. I couldn’t sleep last night so I was here until 2 am this morning. At that time I deleted 148 spam emails. This morning when I logged on I had 155 spam emails. I just happened to notice this one so I thought I’d share it with you. I’m not going to scan the entire list. I’ll delete them.
So, just in case you have a legitimate comment and you don’t see it after a day or so, it probably got thrown out with the spam. That doesn’t happen very often because the spam filtering software does a very good job. But, occasionally one or two will slip by.
WTF why did they use my name DAMN IT
hey at least they put the right website in there
infidel, you should be honored they thought of you for promoting their web site in pleasing women
over at http://www.myconfinedspace.com I had make the comments registration only due to all the spam. Even had to kill the trackbacks too, that’s where most of my spam was coming from, but a couple years ago, I got over a couple thousand spam comments in a day and I had enough!
Save the internet, kill a spammer !
Bill that did make me feel good
Would Infidel Spam It?
Infi,
They’ve done that to a lot of the regular commenters. I just thought it was funny when they used yours for that particular website. I’d been thinking about making a post about how the spammers try to get a post through, and when I saw that one I knew I had to do it.
dude are you the real tiki god?
thanks Jonco,thats too funny Mike