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Deep Thoughts on Spam

November 7, 2004

What happens when spam no longer has a selling point?
I keep getting single piece of spam every once in a while in roughly the same format from the same IP address. Some might ask why I don't just ban this IP address but the comments themselves just have me amazed at what this spammer could be trying to accomplish. It's possible that I've banned all the other IPs that this spammer is trying to spam me from and just this one comment from one IP gets though each time I'm spammed (about once or twice a day from this person). Of course that doesn't explain all of it - the comments link to non-existant sites (sites of people's names - not something someone might use for selling something) with emails that I have to assume are also non-existant at free email services. They say something that someone might say on a comment but they're always too vague. What is the point of this spam? Why am I getting so little of it? Real spam makes sense to me and this just puts me in the fetal position...

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ive been getting a ton of those as well: urls to a persons name, the site doesnt exist.

*tap tap tap*
"what?"
"Nothing"
Pause.
*tap tap tap*
"What do you want?!
"Nothing."
Pause.
And so on. Maybe these companies just get mad kicks out of irritating people. Or they sell stress-reliever medicine.

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