In lieu of our usual picture Sunday, we offer instead a beautiful word picture from our friends the spammers. Our software blocks thousands of these every day, but some get through and we have to hand prune our comment sections:
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when preparing her own post-graduate research and, most importantly, pertaining to providing masny of the ideas in a blog post.
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Thank you very much.
What mystifies us is the ultimate purpose of these spam comments. This one was placed on our announcement for our upcoming coffee roasting class (not a popular or highly linked post), and linked to a page for a restaurant which is obviously just a place holder, in that it has no content or history or graphic design. And who the heck is Janet?
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Occasionally, I receive the same perplexing type of comment. Since the writer is obviously not a native speaker, I wonder how many native English speakers the person hopes to influence. Sometimes, it is not clear what the poster wants.
We’ve all had mystery spam sent our way. I have had non-native spam as well. Sometimes without a link. So no link back and the post makes no sense. They must have a lot of time on their hands.
Bill
Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!
My spam box sometimes give me quite a good chuckle, I must say… And yes, what is the point of it all? Some are quite obviously commercially drive, but what of the rest of them? Its a puzzle, but at least an occasionally humorous one.