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"The good news: I thought Our Kampf was consistently hilarious. The bad news: I’m the guy who wrote Monkeybone."—Sam Hamm, screenwriter, Batman, Batman Returns, and Homecoming
November 09, 2004
I Don't Understand This New-Fangled Spam
Back in olden times, things made sense. Every day you'd get up, milk the cows, slop the hogs, and delete the 78 pieces of comment spam that accumulated on your website overnight. You understood the spam, and the spam understood you. You knew it was trying to get Google to notice the urls of the websites it was promoting. And while you didn't like it, you knew both you and the spam had a part to play in the grand cycle of life and death and free gay incest.
But now... well, sometimes it seems like the whole world's changed. Now you receive comment spam titled "Durffwurzle for President" that links to a site that doesn't even exist. Pretty soon it becomes a trend.
What's going on? you wonder. What possible point is there to this kind of spam? And what kind of world are we leaving for our children? But then, with a rueful laugh, you realize every generation has probably wondered the same thing about its comment spam.
Ou sont les comment spam d'antan?
Posted at November 9, 2004 02:28 PM | TrackBackWell, there could be a point... A new variant of the MyDoom worm infects computers via link in text rather than email attachment.
You can find details at:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.mydoom.ah@mm.htm
This was funny, because I get spam e-mails that I have no idea what they are advertising or what the point is. I am confused too. I understand they are getting around spam filters, but there is a point of no return where your ad no longer says anything intelligible and I cannot see how this sells products.
Posted by: Anna in Cairo at November 10, 2004 06:47 AM"...and I cannot see how this sells products."
Did it ever?
Posted by: James J. Dominguez at November 10, 2004 04:56 PMWell, the real question seems to be : what kind of children are we leaving for our world, isn't it?
Cheers
Posted by: Chez at November 12, 2004 12:43 PM
