Is it just me, or is spam getting more blatant these days? I just cleared out my junk comments over at illarterate.co.uk and those posts are bordering on essay length. Worse, they read like copy-pastes from television infomercials or those horrible flyers you get through your letterbox on a weekly basis. What a waste of bandwidth they are. That's bandwidth I could be using to send my twelfth tweet about what I had for dinner... and it's only 12:01.Reading this spam, it's like one of those blokes coming round to your house to sell you a vacuum cleaner considerably worse than the one you have currently. Except here you don't actually have to read them. Nevertheless, it's interesting to see how blogspam has developed into full-on sales pitches for products I don't think anyone would buy even if they had no brain. And Lord knows there are plenty such people out there.
Wonder if anybody has actually fallen prey to the spammers? I'll bet thousands, but they're all too embarrassed to admit it.
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