Zen and the Art of Speedskating

One bad effect of having a blog that ranks highly in the Google Blog search engine is that spammers have suddenly taken note of my existence. I used to get 1 or 2 pieces of “comment spam” a day, suddenly its rocketed to about 25 a day. I have installed the wonderful Wordpress blog utility “spam karma 2” to dispatch these evil little digital dust motes into oblivion. It works like a charm.

One cool thing is that I get a daily digest of removed spam to glance quickly through to make sure no legit messages have been accidentally condemned.

Suddenly I am getting a lot more spam poetry to examine! What do I mean, spam poetry??? Spammers often have their computers string together constantly random, changing, auto generated sentences & misspelled words to fool spam guards. Usually it’s nonsense, but when a spammer mixes their key term in along with the random words. It becomes a kind of Dadaist poetry after a while. Here is an example, each couplet was from a separate piece of spam I received today.

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(can you tell I am really enjoying my rest day today, I feel 100% better! and ready to happily join in any harvest tide moose run of lo!!)

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