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Public Sector Exhibitions

WebMan — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:15:23 +0000

I’m getting fed up of being bombarded with e-mails about a Water, Sewerage and Waste exhibition in glamorous Peterborough…

These shitty e-mails are coming from olivia@pse.co.uk who must be desperate to fill spaces or incompetent when it comes to e-mail marketing.

Spam2Us

WebMan — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:48:30 +0000

Sorry, no I meant dictate2us: stuartfoster@dictate2us.com although the domain name is registered to a Solicitor gsl@glplaw.com and adminstered by mail@timmyleigh.com who also seems to work out of the same Solicitor’s offices.

You’d think they’d know the rules…

Peter Clayton

WebMan — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:49:07 +0000

And another regular spammer: Peyter [sic] Clayton, according to his utterly crap website.

Business Lists Ltd

WebMan — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:37:06 +0000

Another spammer. info@databureau.co.uk main@databureau.co.uk and sbarbour@databureau.co.uk

The Trouble With Google…

WebMan — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:06:38 +0000

…is that they seem to live in some sort of Utopia where spam simply doesn’t exist. Why do I suggest that?

Take a look at their latest product: Google Friend Connect. It’s an application/suite of apps. that can easily add social networking features to an otherwise static website and requires little programming or coding knowledge by the website owner. There’s a video that explains how it works.

All your friends and other members of the public need is a Google Account to be able to interact with your website. And therein lies the problem.

I run a number of message boards and blogs and have noticed more and more of the spam signups/user registrations are coming from confirmed Gmail addresses, i.e. spammers with fire and forget Google accounts. So imagine your spangly new website features. How long before they would be full of comment spams linking to online casinos and drugstores? About as long as it would take for Google to find your site and include it in Google searches, I’d bet.

Such a pity because if that Utopia were to exist, it’d be a fabulous thing.

Racing Ball Sports Corporate Hospitality Ltd

WebMan — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:39:05 +0000

Oh how I hate these spamming cunts!

Feel free to contact them at any of these (almost certainly bogus) fire and forget e-mail addresses:

sales@rbsh.co.uk PaulBentley@Industrymailsend.info postmaster@industrymailsend.info postmaster@formreponse.info postmaster@graphicsend.biz pamyoung1804@googlemail.com Racing & Ball Sports Corporate Hospitality Ltd PaulBentley@sporting-marketing.co.uk PaulBentley@hospitality-events.co.uk paulbentley@mycorporatedaysout.co.uk mail@mycorporatedaysout.co.uk

I love the way they send spam and use Romanian servers for their shite, but on their own web shite they try to take anti-spam measures! Pity also that Fasthosts seem content to send out all the spam for these cunts.

User Registration Spam

WebMan — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:11:18 +0000

One of the main annoyances in the Internet age are spammers.

They’re still obviously hitting e-mail addresses aplenty and they moved on to spamming feedback forms from websites. As if anyone with even half a braincell would buy any shite that way!

The problem with blogs is with comment and trackback spam – usually dealt with by Akismet – and also with user registration spam. I’m not entirely sure what the point is with the latter unless it’s to get over comments requiring user registration first.

Anyway, I’ve just added two plugins to my main blogs:

reCaptcha for comments; and
Recapture for user registrations.

We’ll see how these fare.