spam

I was just going through some messages that were in Thunderbird and moving them over to Gmail using Gmail IMAP. Here is the only spam e-mail I have ever saved:

Hello,

I'm a time traveler stuck here in 2003. Since nobody here seems to be able to get me what I need (safely here to me), I will have to build a simple time travel circut to get where I need myself. I am going to need an easy to follow picture diagram for a simple time travel circut, which can be built out of (readily available) parts here in 2003. Please email me any schematics you have. I will pay good money for anything you send me I can use. Or if you have the rechargeable AMD dimensional warp generator wrist watch unit available, and are 100% certain you have a (secure) means of delivering it to me please also reply. Send a separate email to me at: info@federalfundingprogram.com

Do not reply back directly to this email as it will only be bounced back to you.

Thank You

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Looks like I have finally banished spam from this site forever thanks to the Drupal CAPTCHA module. Apparently this captcha is not readable by software yet, or maybe no one has tried. There are so many sites out there without any captcha or spam filters that the spammers probably don't even need to resort to captcha-deciphering. I almost don't even need the Akismet module anymore.

Finally got rid of spam from my site. It had caused me problems to no end. I have been using Akismet, but it is not perfect and has the odd false positive so I can't have it delete messages it thinks are spam. I have to have it put them in a spam moderation queue. But unfortunately I have to scan through them quickly before deleting which takes some time. When I was on holidays in May the spam actually caused my disk space on the server to run out.

Finally the Drupal Captcha module actually works and can do image captchas, not just text captchas. Now I have gone 2 days spam free so far.

Due to the insane amount of trackback spam I have been getting, I had to disable trackbacks altogether. As soon as the akismet drupal module<?a> supports trackbacks, I might be able to re-enable them. I really think trackbacks are a useful feature.

Ok, after adding the captcha module I still got one comment spam in a very short amount of time, so I found that there is an Akismet module for Drupal, although it isn't listed on the Drupal module list. It is truly amazing and works wonders.

I just got assaulted with blogspam in the past few days. The Drupal Badbehavior module just wasn't doing it's job. Probably because it isn't using badbehavior 2.x. So I have had to bring back the captcha module for anonymous comments.

A spam message got through the GMail spam filter this morning. It was a very clever spam and I am going to be very annoyed if every spammer starts adopting this strategy. Here's the message:

Easiest thing in the world, tight? They bookended Annie and she was saying something to them, first looking up to speak to Goliath, then half-turning and looking down to reply to David.
"Her eyes actually were a bit red. Part of him, a craven, cowardly part which would rather risk losing Misery forever than look upon the inevitable results of such a mistake, denied it. Ill put it under my tongue when I swallow the other one, then stick it under my mattress with the other pills when she takes the drinking glass out. in real life was quite different from playing it in a cross-legged circle as a kid or doing it in front of a typewriter as a grown-up, he discovered.

He could not tell her because it would hurt her badly, and in spite of all the pain she had afforded him, he found he could not hurt her in that way. He had been gotten by the goddess.
in real life was quite different from playing it in a cross-legged circle as a kid or doing it in front of a typewriter as a grown-up, he discovered. Part of him, a craven, cowardly part which would rather risk losing Misery forever than look upon the inevitable results of such a mistake, denied it.

Then there was an image attachment containing text about a stock (SMKG). How do you catch these randomly generated messages of text followed by an image containing text? Paul Graham has written more about spam then anyone else I know. I've read a bunch of his articles and I highly recommend them to anyone.