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Category: spam

  • Spam?

    I was reading about dynamic proxies in Java (sidenote: it is interesting how similar concepts get implemented in languages which are considered “far apart” – take the foreach loop or “magic” getters and setters, all of which are present in PHP, Java and Perl – just in the languages I used recently) and came upon…

  • (Un)intentional spam?

    Recently I’ve been annoyed by the site swik.net. From the site: SWiK.net is a SourceLabs project to help people collaboratively document open-source software. It seems to be a legitimate project (it was mentioned for example by the O’Reilly radar) and there are relatively few complaints against it. However, it has the unfortunate sideeffect that it…

  • Approving comments

    As I explained earlier, the only reason I prefilter comments is spam. I do not censor comments based on any other criteria. If you comment didn’t show up, the only reason is that I’m being lazy (yet again :-p). However there was one comment on my Favicon for blogger (which I will update shortly by…

  • Excite-d about spam

    Not really. Yahoo does a pretty good job of filtering out spam. From time to time however I check my spam box to see if some newsletter or password notification got lost there (these are the two types of e-mails I found that are most often erroneously tagged as spam by Yahoo). And yesterday I…

  • Spammers use Google as redirector

    It seems that this isn’t a new thing (see others noticing it here and here), however I’ve been just hit by a couple of these today, so I blog about it 🙂 Google offers a service which creates redirects with arbitrary targets. Just enter http://www.google.com/url?q=<an-url-of-your-wish< and it will issue a 302 permanently moved header and…