Opening my Gmail spamtrap these days is like, "Here, let's test your browser's Unicode compatibility."

(Sorry if that says something horribly insulting in a language I apparently don't even have a full font-set for.)

Probably the only thing worse than spammers fucking things up directly is the mere threat of spammers fucking things up. Twice now I've happened to look at the Gameshelf blog's spamtrap, and found it 100 percent full of perfectly legitimate reader comments that never got posted. The jmac.org blog gets hammered with so much spam that MT started ( Read more... )

The Bad Astronomer got a great piece of spam I haven't seen before, basically saying "Send me money or I WILL KILL YOU." With a great little story that the author is an assassin who's been paid to whack the recipient, but decided to give them one chance to outbid the client before he follows through. Awesome ( Read more... )

I have figured out why a lot of expected email's been completely unfindable, not even in my spam folder. It's because it's been falling into jmac.org's spam folder, which is different from my mail gmail account's spamtrap, now that I've started to let Gmail handle all jmac.org's mail directly. Only the survivors of the jmac.org spam filter were ( Read more... )

Today was wacky. A kerfuffle resulted from volity.com's highly intolerant mailserver refusing an important mail from a client several days ago, due to the fact that the mail was sent from a hotel with a reputation for spam. The client didn't see the bounce message that the server instantly shot back at them, so they didn't know that I never read ( Read more... )

You get an email that actually looks like it may have been composed by a native English speaker welcoming you to a web-based community you may not necessarily recall asking to join, and providing a raw numeric IP address (uh oh) as a confirmation link ( Read more... )

Don't ask me how i found it, but I find this page on a spam blog strangely haunting. Look at those comments, from folks like "Stinky", "Merlin" and "Bob" all groping around in the same machine-generated dialect of broken English, trying desperately to buy or sell the same nonsense object but apparently unable to connect with one another. They make ( Read more... )

daerr fiddled around until he hit on the right command-line incantation to create new tickets via the command line. Sadly this involved patching RT's source code since it bogusly rejected tickets with any newlines in their descriptions. Er? whatevSo now if you email our RT system without a blessed subject line you get it thrown back in your face. The ( Read more... )

One way or another I'll see the Volity RT spam problem fixed, ehn, sometime this week.

Not today, though. I refuse to take time away from money-making mode to deal with whichever band of eastern-bloc mafia has chosen to smear their shit all over our website. The thought of literally losing money to them really makes me so goddamn angry I can't

To those reading this via Planet Volity, sorry for all the RT spam. It looks like bad people got a hold of our RT queue's email address.

I'll try fixing things to make that impossible to spam (while making it possible to stil report bugs!) tomorrow.