Simply for keeping this journal, I get attention, in the form of comments. Occasionally someone will offer an apropros remark; you can offer yours below.
More often, though, I get fake comments—automated spam battering at everyone it can find, hoping to sell me Viagra or magazine subscriptions or Russian wives or gold or penis enlargement or whatever. Even better, spambots’ designers hope to pass unnoticed through my filter and get reprinted to pester anyone who passes by this site. To protect you, gentle reader, from this unkind fate, I block such traffic.
In an effort to defeat my policing efforts in this miniscule corner of the internet, some spam comes with generic statements trying to pass as genuine comments. The least sophisticated simply pour out three or four lines of random characters; perhaps they’ll fool automated defenses. Somewhat more sophisticated fake comments take the form of generic statements. Writing them must make an interesting challenge: making them as generic and broad as possible, so as to reach a maximum number of careless site hosts, but specific enough to fool them.
As I say, I block such traffic. Generally. I want to share this one for a laugh, though—minus the reply-to address, so they won’t get any business out of it:
“Good post and this enter helped me a lot in my college assignement. Thank you on your information.â€
Fake message. At least I hope it’s fake. With that degree of mastery of the language, I doubt any essay would help much. Worse for any college student using it for his assignement [sic], this particuar entry would be even less help than most: it was about a Dungeons & Dragons product best left forgotten. It’s little hints like this that help identify a spambot.
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