I see that nowadays comment spammers don’t bother figuring out what markup they need to use to make hyperlinks, so they try half a dozen different formats and hope one works.
They’re also apparently too dumb to not put two dozen spam comments in the same recent post and think that won’t get noticed right quick.
Thank you, spammer who decided to forge a bogus From: whatever@kuliniewicz.org header, for all the bounces and other autoreply garbage that wound up in my inbox yesterday. In hindsight, I suppose I should have blackholed all @kuliniewicz.org e-mail addresses I’m not actively using instead of leaving the default of “all of them forward to me”. Naturally, I reconfigured that pretty quickly once I saw what was happening, and so only got ~100 garbage autoreplies in my inbox from that spam.
That said, you have no idea how tempted I am to reply to all the challenge/response messages the spam triggered. You know, to repay them the favor of filling my inbox with backscatter.
Fun fact: challenge/response spam filters operate on the same principle as protecting your house from burglars by hanging your neighbor’s key on your front door with a note that he has a nicer TV than yours anyway.
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