With great reluctance I am temporarily enabling captchas for comments. Although it’s normally excellent at blocking spam comments, Blogger has let 300 spam comments through to this post in the past two weeks or so, and I’m running out of time to keep deleting them. I will try to remember to disable the ca...

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Any mail I receive that only contains Russian characters is spam. Ditto for Asian languages. Either Gmail‘s spam filter has been loosened, or the spammers are getting better, but I’m getting a lot more spam in my Gmail inbox these days. Oh well.

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asa pointed out that some Blogger users are being given the opportunity to sign up for GMail accounts. So I logged in and voila! phil.wilson@gmail.com Let the spam begin. 🙂

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My girlfriend’s just received some SMS spam (this one in fact), and came to show it to me not because she was going to call it, but because the “sent” date is approximately five hours in the future. Of course, a quick google of the contents retrieved the page on Grum...

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