Tag Archives: spam

Splogging

15 November

I’ve noticed a new type of spam in the past month or so. Buried in the hundreds of spam comments left on this blog and the countless others that I look after I’ve noted that some of them are trackbacks containing excerpts of my own posts. They have often been subtlely changed by using synonyms [...]

Fighting Spam

08 June

I’ve just found out about spam.la – a website set up by Dreamhost that allows you to use a temporary “@spam.la” email address for anything you like. So next time you want to download some trial software, or need to submit a valid email address for something, and don’t fancy having a sweepstake about how [...]