{"id":1558,"date":"2005-08-26T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-26T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2005-08-26T08:54:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-26T16:54:00","slug":"1558","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1558","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Some more spam, this one “with love” from “monique”:<\/p>\n

come into it yet. But I do not at all complain of having been kept out of this property; and if anybody
my father’s great barns; and he played his part so well comes into his
hands, he will make a different sort of place of it,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparenly, that’s from Persuasion<\/i><\/a> by Jane Austen. (Hey, I was an English major, but I’ve still only read one Austen book.) Weird. Are they hoping this filler will persuade me<\/i> to click their link, even though I know it’s spam? Even though I don’t know a “monique” and, even if I did, she wouldn’t be sending me tiny chunks of Austen and clearly spam-filled links?<\/p>\n

And this I don’t understand: why do spammers even use<\/i> filler to begin with? Why do they use filler that’s just random pieces like this? Do they have such<\/i> a limited grasp of the English language that they don’t realize cutting and pasting mid-sentence — mid-punctuation<\/i> even — isn’t fooling anybody? Do they think, “Oh ho, if I slap in some in some random 19th-century prose, nobody will be able to resist my advertisement for Viagra rolexes! Muhahahaha!”<\/p>\n

I just don’t get it. I mean, most spam is just garbage — a link or an advertisement. The ones that try to pretend they’re something else just tend to underline the fact that they’re spam.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some more spam, this one “with love” from “monique”: come into it yet. But I do not at all complain of having been kept out of this property; and if anybody my father’s great barns; and he played his part so well comes into hishands, he will make a different sort of place of it, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}