Yes, I know it’s old hat to complain about spam. But seriously, how many people still look at the comments on their blogs and think, “oh splendid, a message written in a pidgin hybrid of Esperanto and Tourette’s, telling me to click on this mysterious link promising nubile displays of faux teenage lesbianism* . Verily I should comply”? Ditto with the emails that somehow slip past ten aggressive filtering rules (there really are that many for my email account at work, and they barely make a dent in the flood of spam). I’m fine with the spammers targetting the hapless idiots who look at underage porn* all day, with nary a spyware-removal or antivirus program, nor even a decent pop-blocker. Those people are just asking for it, and I guess spammers have to eat too. But if I’ve invested effort into keeping scumbags like you out of my inbox and off my blog, why in the hell would I make an exception for your useless “Vaigra” ad?
I realize that most of these posts/emails are sent by soulless bots and not actual people. Still, someone had to write those scripts. That someone is probably laying out on a beach in the Bermudas now, living it up off the stupidity of a handful of tremendous Internet noobs, and the accumulated irritation of the millions of us others. I’m not sure who I should be more mad at: the spammers or the dorks who fall for them, ensuring spam’s profitability.
*Now taking bets on how many hits I’ll get for these phrases. Hi perverts!
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Well, that’s surely what go me here, all the wonderful links to nextdoor underage teenage Viagra enlargments.
Hope that adds to your count a bit, (seriously though, it’s crazy)
;)
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