why is so much of my spam Japanese?
Because they found out about your schoolgirls n' tentacles fetish. Duh.
If 3 is to 2, then damn but you're a fast replier.
For those who can't read the above, it says "Steven den Beste is a dirty pervert."
Ok not really.
You're so cute when you're petulant.
Beginning, I to tell the truth getting married, however it is the [te] 34 year old, am good, is? Being in the house, being boring,...It tried contributing to the bulletin board for the first time. Like this, because the [yu] - because the mel friend or it has not made,...What you should have written?? After when building the relationship which is possible to be the mail we can meet, it is delightful, is!
I get the same Japanese spam, constantly. WTF?
So you can't poetize it? I mean, this one that just went over a Faulkner listserv begs to poetized. (Or is a Jane Austen novel. Hard to tell.)
"we have dined twice! how much shall i have
because you have always so much."
"nothing is more deceitful," said darcy, "than the
belief of your being a party able to procure any woman's good opinion, because he was not so happy as to succeed at
breakfast, and always remaining till after supper; unless when some barbarous neighbour, who could
wait on them at in spite of that pollution
as it is, i would really rather not sit down
and though they were at one time left by for half-an-hour, he adhered to her
likely to marry her , had she been his relation.
she was exceedingly pleased with this proposal, and felt pounded of her sister!
he acknowledged him to be pretty, but she smiled too much.
downstairs. as they passed through the hall, someone opened the doors into the dining-parlour
admiration. the officers were in general a gentlemanlike set, and
being really married?"
no! he readily assented, and a book was produced
"i cannot believe it. why should they try to influence him? they can only wish his happiness;
"i cannot believe it. why should they try to influence him? they can only wish his happiness;
"he is as fine a fellow," he said out of the house,
"i am, dear sir, etc., etc."
and i shall never be embarrassed by his coming.
i am glad he dines on it
My spam is Thai.
There's a Bangkok joke in here somewhere.
Off-topic, sorry. I just love spam poetry. It's like language without the hard work of thinking! What's not to like?
My spam is Thai.
My friends are shy.
I have a bird who likes to fly.
My bowl is empty. I am high.
I'd have to see the raw text of the original comment, but I can offer you a likely nerd explanation: links. My bet is that the comment itself contained at least one link (in the URL field of the comment, obviously, but there are likely several hidden within the message by making, say, a period be the text of the link) to another site. The point of the comment spam isn't to plant a fake comment on the site for your eyes, it's to build up the number of links back to their site for search engine rank purposes.
On a related note, a friend and I once discussed starting a blog where all posts were miniature, Spoon River Anthology-esque biographies of the people behind the amusing names in our spam folders, names like Inveterate C. Lasagna, etc. It would have been hilarious, I assure you, if we weren't a couple of lazy-ass lazies.
I can't tell if Slol is making a clever allusion to previous wordsmithing.
Oh, email? Check the full headers, see if there are any miniscule image-file attachments. Email is a whole 'nother story, obviously, and the explanation can be anything from (a) a Japanese spammer got ripped off when they bought a list of what were supposed to be Japanese email addresses to (z) there are naughty attachments that are hidden from the naked eye in a passing glance (this used to be very, very big in email spam, but I haven't kept track of how common it is anymore).
I consider (a) the likeliest of the various explanations I could theorycraft up in a couple of minutes.
Welcome to the world of Robust McSoberPants, infinitely less entertaining.
Whose you got?
Just the bit of Labs' that passes through my meridian.
I dunno, it seems like a lot of people have been getting Japanese spam for a while now. There are links in the messages, for what that's worth.
Don't click the links! I once got a nasty spyware virus that way. I did get to see some asian porn, though, so there's that.
Just the bit of Labs' that passes through my meridian.
Yeah, bang that.
My guess would be because spammers hit gmail, in particular, with no attempt to discern what language the recipients happen to read.
Given that it's email and it contains links, I'd have to see it to have much of an idea. This is not an invitation to you to forward me your spam, naturally. Besides, email spam is something I haven't dealt with professionally in so long that my knowledge is probably pretty worthless at this point. Speaking personally, the reader I use for most of my personal mail doesn't render the foreign character sets, does render the HTML but isn't a POP client (such as Outlook) that's vulnerable to a lot of the concerns I'd normally have about rendering the HTML. In other words, on the rare occasion I go bounce around in my spam folder to see if something worthwhile got tagged, I don't see the foreign-language text if it's there, I just see links and the tags for attached images but not the images themselves and a note that the email was originally sent using a non-English alphabet. Of the ones currently in said folder, most have a small ( in said folder, most have a small (~2K file size) image attachment, but that could be anything.
Fascinating, I know!
I suppose one gets the gist from the Babelfish above, but here's an actual translation.
--
Nice to meet you. I'm actually 34 years old and married; are you OK with that? I'm always bored at home... so I tried posting to a bulletin board. I've never had an online friend before... what do I write?? I'd really like to get to meet you after we build a good relationship by mail!
--
A weird thing about Japanese spam is that it's all literate. Not enough second-language speakers? Higher perceived standards?
I'm used to subject lines indicating very similar content to the above. It's always nice to be reminded that Japanese has a discrete noun meaning "another man's wife."
I get no Japanese spam to my Yahoo address. This surely has to do with the existence of mail.yahoo.co.jp. About 15% of the spam to my gmail address is Japanese, on the other hand. (The two addresses have the same kind of web exposure, and none to do with Japan)
29 makes sense, since I did click the link (I'm crazy that way) and it seemed like a risque Japanese dating site. My bride is in the mail.
Don't tell me Freud had a long passage about meridians.
All that niceness about no longer doing desk-level security aside, an unsolicited professional opinion: don't fucking click the links.
don't fucking click the links
Generally good advice, of course. But when everyone's curious, go ahead and click the links, just be prepared to rebuild your pc afterwards.
Don't tell me Freud had a long passage about meridians.
This would be news to Mrs. Freud, certainly.
Apologies for the semiotic whiplash going from 23 to 36.
To explain myself: I imagined that you meant that Labs's continent-spanning cock crossed your meridian, and I advised you to bang the part you could see. If you had something else in mind, I missed it.
38: Right, but you can also read "the bit of Labs' that passes through my meridian" to suggest that a segment of your co-blogger's anatomy habitually penetrates me. It's a wossname, a double-entendre.
Thus rendering your advice superfluous.
Phew, those comments are much funnier now that we've appended all the explanations.
The mouseover says "No funny jokes". I took it to heart.
a friend and I once discussed starting a blog where all posts were miniature, Spoon River Anthology-esque biographies of the people behind the amusing names in our spam folders
Jesus, I'd love to read something like that. I have a sincere but decidedly qualifed affection for Spoon River Anthology from my long-ago days in theater. It was commonly used as a source of dramatic monologues for acting classes. "I was the first fruits of the battle of Missionary Ridge," etc. I realize it's a specialized taste, but for me this would be as hott as clown fucking.
Off-topic, sorry. I just love spam poetry. It's like language without the hard work of thinking!
You can go for the cheap laugh, Kaufman(n) style. But you know what would rule so supremely? A spam cento---a *good* one.
I've actually seen spam poetry that I genuinely liked, though (of course) I can't remember where anymore.
A spam cento---a *good* one.
That'd require them spamming you with poetry though. I've gotten Dickens/Eliot/everything-other-Victorian-novelist spam, but no poetry yet. Mark my word, though, the second I do, you'll get your wish. (So long as you drop the "good" requirement, that is.)
Most of my foreign language spam is Russian. It's not much better than the Japanese spam.
We can relax the requirement for centos and admit lines that were originally prose—in fact we could use the oulipian "poetry amidst the prose" rule to find metrical prose. (There's an example with iambic pentameter, taken from one of Fitzgerald's novels, in the Oulipo Compendium, but I lent my copy to a complit student.)
