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The Irony of Spam

August 4th, 2009 / Poetry

I logged in to my admin place,
the place I write this stuff,
and in my tiny comment space,
I found a lot of fluff.

“What’s this?”, I said, a bit confused -
I clicked on someone’s name,
and with my psyche slightly bruised,
I guessed this person’s game.

A ploy to sell some shady pills,
to my friends and similar folk -
as if the cost of our own bills
was not making us broke.

“It’s not a human being at all,
it’s just a script on cron!”,
my I.P. bans would barely stall
the bullshit these things spawn.

Do note, I use Akismet much,
and yes, it works, a lot -
and quite a bit of spam, as such,
is by Akismet caught.

Yet this is one persistent bunch,
these scripts with no AI,
despite my heavy server crunch,
they’ll post until I cry.

So I took my very last resort,
(censored tools) and DNS,
and broke into their :80 port,
the rest is yours to guess.

Note: This is actually what I did this weekend. Inspiration.

5 Responses to “The Irony of Spam”

  1. At 13:04
    On 4th Aug 2009,

    *Applause* *Applause* I think I’ll read that site that you got your inspiration from. What’s interesting, is the Email Me link just points to this: ‘root@127.0.0.1′. That doesn’t look like it’ll help me in contacting whoever posted it.

    Again, nice post :D

  2. At 13:55
    On 8th Aug 2009,
    Hua Chen wrote:

    As the saying goes: “No Google. no spam”.

  3. At 14:36
    On 10th Aug 2009,
    RG wrote:

    Yeah, I get a drove of spambots visiting me whenever my website gets featured somewhere.

  4. At 15:19
    On 14th Aug 2009,
    Zach wrote:

    Ha. Very nice.
    Stumbled onto your blog from a google search about some css help…

  5. At 10:44
    On 28th Jan 2010,

    Ha ha ha, cool poem, great job dude ;-)
    I think spammers should be put in jail! I get around 50 spam-mails a day :-(

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