Evolution of Spammers

The Dee Zone in this form has been around since 2007. Over the years I've noticed a change in the spam that gets caught in the filters. At first some spammers actually left comments that looked enough like a real comment to get by the spam filters.  There were also the stupid spammers that left … Continue reading Evolution of Spammers

Fun With Spammers

Usually, I delete spam but some spam deserves to fodder for blogging fun. This is also keeping with #8 in the About Comments. The other day I found this in my spam filters. Your blog sucks, that’s because you have not yet agree to accept my exchange link proposal, call me. Well, gee this is … Continue reading Fun With Spammers

30 Years of Spam

May 3rd marks the 30th anniversary Spam. That is right on May 3rd 1978 the first spam was sent over ARAPNet. It was advertising DEC's new System-20 mini computers. Of course by today's standards mini-computers weren't that small. It was certainly bigger than my iPod and less memory. For more on the history of spam.