Comments on: I am a spam magnet today. What gives?

By: victorianeely

victorianeely — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:14:06 +0000

No! The defoliated bewhiskered sniggled hatpin made me do it!

By: Susan Villas Lewis

Susan Villas Lewis — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:48:49 +0000

Aha! I think we found our culprit.

By: victorianeely

victorianeely — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:40:34 +0000

Spam? You mean like unstrangled recollective jovite desulphurize polymer spinaceous hemangiomatosis residue?

I just had to deal with a whole mess of ridiculous spam comments like that. I hate spam.

By: Susan Villas Lewis

Susan Villas Lewis — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:37:26 +0000

Oops!! Julie, darling. I think I accidentally hit the spam button for your comment. Geez.

Just having spam issues here at SquidTop. I have very stringent guards up everywhere else.

By: comfortdoc

comfortdoc — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:04:21 +0000

Glad to know that it isn’t just me. I’ve been getting a lot of spam comments for almost a week now.

By: poddys

poddys — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:59:11 +0000

Maybe that’s why it’s been suffering this morning. Only just got in and I can’t always get a page to load.

By: Susan Villas Lewis

Susan Villas Lewis — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:28:32 +0000

Yes, that’s what I meant. Here on SquidTop. I don’t see it anywhere else because my email accounts have lovely protections. But they’re hitting SquidTop hard right now.

By: katinka - spirituality

katinka - spirituality — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:49:03 +0000

I’ve been getting a lot of spam too - here on squidtop. Luckily they were all caught in the spam filter

By: poddys

poddys — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:55:07 +0000

Haven’t seen those lately Susan, but the dictionary spam isn’t new, comes in phases, but not seen any in months. On my main email accounts with POWWEB (my web site host) I have been really pleased with their spam filters - it looks like they catch 95% of the spam I receive, and rarely trap genuine messages. I know everyone isn’t that lucky.

It’s very frustrating isn’t it!

Main thing to know is that replying to spam is the worst thing you can do. Often the address it is pretending to come from is fake, or a real address but not where it originated. So you either waste your time replying to someone who didn’t spam you, or the message gets rejected because it went to an invalid address, or worse still, your reply tells the spammers that your address is real and active - and then they know to send you more spam…

Best to just delete it, adjust your filters if you can, and be patient. It will die down…

By: Susan Villas Lewis

Susan Villas Lewis — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:28:27 +0000

Very funny, Tony! But you need to catch up with the new wave of spam, which is a bunch of random $10 words with some links thrown in. Why does anyone think that’s going to get through?