01/31 2005 – It’s amazing what you can find in your referral logs when it comes to referral spammers, but today I was actually spammed by a site selling the tool for doing referral spamming. *effy.net – The Mass Referrer Marketer. [Ducking the nofollow link attribute]They have a page full of info of how referral […]
Referral spammers – why are they doing it and what should we do about them?
01/07 2005 – The referral spammers have been on to this site in a storm today, even though I keep adding them to the list of sites that get nothing but a null space in replay when tracked as the referring site. —- Update 2005-01-08: If you want to find a few hundred of the […]
Better anti-spam filtering
11/23 2004 – After a recent change of hosting companies, the amount of spam that makes it through to my inbox is just a fraction of what it used to be. The web hosting company currently hosting this site (Datakultur.com*) has an optional server-side spam filter, that really does the job. Combined with the built-in […]
Gevalia makes horrible coffee
08/23 2004 – I keep getting spammed by tasteless affiliates to Gevalia, a Swedish coffee company. Now, I am Swedish and kind of proud of it. I drink coffee too. Lots of it. At times I can go through quite a lot for a cup of really good coffee. And trust me when I say […]
What is Gloria Hole?
What is not a personal pronomina. I know that, and since I’m pretty sure Gloria Hole is not a person, i wonder what it might be. During the past few days the logs of this site shows numerous false referrals from various blogger blogs with a few things in common. They all seem to belong […]
Spam and mail worms… Ha! I'm on a Mac!
05/04 2004 – I don’t know, some days you just feel like relaxing, enjoying a Cosmopolitan drink in a cool bar, or exploring some new exotic drinks with strange liqueurs instead of chasing for new interesting links to follow up. Especially on days like this, when the Sasser virus seem to scare a lot of […]
Korean spam still tastes the best
04/27 2004 – Evereone reading this site knows how I feel about spam and the scumbag spammers who fill my mail system and use up valuable bandwidth. It all boils down to a distinct feeling pretty close to hatred. Still, there is something special about Korean spam. The cartoon style, the fact that I really […]
Äntligen ett svenskt spam-förbud!
2004-02-18 – Äntligen är det dags för ett svenskt förbud mot oönskad reklam via epost! Frågan är nu bara om vi får se en sista explotion innan förbudet träder i kraft? Moderaterna är det enda parti som vänder sig emot förslaget eftersom det inte kan anses vara heltäckande. Må så vara, men nu finns det […]
Epost-reklam till barn – misstag eller slarv?
2004-02-17 – Igår var jag upprörd. Mina två äldsta barn, Alice 10 år och Love 8 år fick båda motta ett s.k. ”medlemsbrev” från KF-företaget PAN Vision. Jag kunde inte förstå hur detta företag, som inget av dem kände till kunde ha fått deras adresser. Tankarna skenade iväg med mig och min mer konspiratoriskt lagda […]
Spambots looking for mail forms
01/21 2004 – I checked the 404 report on one of my not so used domains today, and was quite suprised to see the amount of visits from bots looking for various formmail scripts. Just look at this: 201: /robots.txt 8: /www.the-other-stuff.com 2: /cgi-bin/formmail.cgi 2: /cgi-bin/FormMail.pl 2: /favicon.ico 1: /cgi-local/formmail.cgi 1: /b2rss2.php 1: /cgi-bin/Mail.pl 1: […]