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The Colbert Report, 26th of January 2009

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    By Arkenor, 1 year and 6 months ago

    The Changing Face of Spam

    I don’t know if this is just me, but in the last couple of months I have seen an extreme drop in the amount of email spam I receive. It’s not being swallowed by the spam-filter in my email software. It’s simply not getting to my computer in the first place. Perhaps it is being filtered out by ISPs, but I am more inclined to think that they’ve given up sending it to me.

    At around the same time-frame that I saw the decrease in email spam, this happened to the comment spam here:

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    It suggests to me a change in strategy by the world’s spamhauses. However, of the thousands of spam comments this blog received in the last month, only one managed to escape Akismet’s awesome filtering powers (And was duly deleted by me). The minuscule cost per spam-comment allows the spammers to cast their net extremely wide, but even so, I must confess that I don’t really understand how comment-spam can be an economically viable method of attracting customers. Instead of posting billions of gibberish comments a day, they would do a lot better to put that effort into writing in coherent sentences.

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    By Arkenor, 1 year and 6 months ago

    The Colbert Report, 22nd of January 2009

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    The Colbert Report, 21st of January 2009

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    The Colbert Report, 20th of January 2009

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    By Arkenor, 1 year and 6 months ago

    The Colbert Report, 19th of January 2009

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    By Arkenor, 1 year and 7 months ago

    The Colbert Report, 15th of January 2009

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    By Arkenor, 1 year and 7 months ago

    The Colbert Report, 14th of January 2009

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