Tuesday, October 25, 2005

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Dear spammer,

That was the latest word-verification word that I had to type in. And it got me thinking.

You only spam because you want to make someone’s life miserable, right? Because it gives you immense sadistic pleasure? And also because you’re bored and have a lot of time on your hands, but that’s immaterial. Unfortunately, Blogger introduced word-verification and shattered all your dreams. But you know what? It’s really not an anti-spam move. Oh no! It’s only replaced what you used to do, and it does it better. These word-verification things irritate the hell out of me. In fact, they irritate me more than you used to. What does that tell you, huh? That you lost! You lost in this battle of being a jerk. And you’re not even doing anything about it. That’s just pathetic. Don’t you have any pride? Doesn’t it prick your ego that someone is now doing your job better than you used to?

Well, I’ve got a proposition for you. How about you work on a way to beat these damn word-verifiers? I’m sure that shouldn’t be too hard for you. You’ve got a devious mind. You’ll find a solution, won’t you? And then, you’ll be able to spam in spite of word-verification. And you know what would happen then? The bloggers will soon remove WV because they’ll realize that it doesn’t make a difference. So you’ll not only get to spam once again, you’ll even have beaten Blogger’s WV. That’s killing two birds with one stone.

So what do you say? Are you up to it? I dare you!

Yours irritatedly,
Ms. V

19 Comments:

At October 25, 2005 6:19 am, Blogger Sahil said...

Wow. I'm really first to comment on the ever popular Ms. V's blog - and that too without even trying.

As for your post - WV really bothers you that much? Come on it ain't all that bad. Damn those spammers though, once they've identified you as a target - they go all out against you. At one stage I got 15 spam comments in the space of an hour.

Horrendus. Some of you IT guys should do smthg about it.

 
At October 25, 2005 6:48 am, Blogger Sahil said...

Jesus.

I just noticed how ur blog name corresponds to your name. Good Lord - I think there need be a tribute to MY greying cells!

 
At October 25, 2005 7:30 am, Anonymous Anonymous said...

??

WV was made to help people!
and Spam was made to help the other people...

would u really take away the all the help one can get?

 
At October 25, 2005 9:17 am, Blogger Random Access said...

Hey wait...im looking out for a chocolate paper...to whistle like a thalaivar movie...

Random Access
The search has just begun !!!

 
At October 25, 2005 11:49 am, Blogger Tar said...

And wot if the Spammer did get the better of WV? Will u appeal to Blogger to beat him with something more irritating than WV??

 
At October 25, 2005 12:02 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Get a Kitty! It will eat the spammers :D!

 
At October 25, 2005 2:55 pm, Blogger Vasanth said...

dis was the bitching i was wanting all these days.... way to go ... !!

 
At October 25, 2005 9:10 pm, Blogger Leon said...

Hey.. the WV system is not foolproof. It just prevents automatic messages.. Nothing can stop stupid people with nothing to do from spamming.

But I'm all for WV.. My blog is for humans.. not machines.. And now I have the satisfaction of knowing that the spammer in question has wasted his/her time typing out all those words and will NOT get a reply from me for all that work.. :D

[Sahil] I saw the spam on your site.. NOTHING can be done for that kind of spam.. We IT guys are helpless.. Silence works best for me. For more eloquent writers like Ms. V, bitching might help. She single handedly got rid of an idiotic spammer on my blog.. I still laugh when I think of the spammer reading her comment... lol

 
At October 26, 2005 2:54 am, Blogger LovingAndLosing said...

Sahil: Trust me. You're probably one of the very few people who have related the blog name to my name! So feel good about it ;)
As for WV, it really really bugs me. I'd rather press the delete button 15 times, than type in some crazy array of letters! Plus, I've been so used to typing in a comment and pressing enter. But now I get a red remark saying, you've entered the WV word incorrectly. Aargh!

Gautam: I like the spammers better :p

RA: A random comment by random access?

tar: Oh no! I just want WV out! That's all. I'd rather have the spammers - the better of the two evils.

Vit-X: Shoo shoo!

Vas: Glad you liked it.

Nirmal: *the WV system is not foolproof.* Music to my ears!

 
At October 26, 2005 9:05 am, Blogger Harish Suryanarayana said...

Ms .V .. Nothing is foolproof in this existence .
" Some rules can be bent ,others, broken " ( wink )

 
At October 26, 2005 12:33 pm, Blogger Vikas said...

RHCP should collect all these words and make a funky song.

 
At October 26, 2005 7:11 pm, Blogger LovingAndLosing said...

Harish: Ohh but you also have to pay the price for breaking them rules!

Vikas: Dave Navarro is SO HOT!

 
At October 27, 2005 1:17 am, Blogger Vikas said...

And why exactly did I need to know that?

 
At October 27, 2005 1:30 am, Blogger LovingAndLosing said...

Vikas: Well I've always wanted to swoon over Dave, and usually everyone is like Navarro who? It's like RHCP is famous as a band, but I don't know if the individual members are known as much. So I just needed to get off my chest. Dave Navarro is SO HOT! Sigh.

 
At October 27, 2005 4:23 am, Blogger Random Access said...

Wow finally the 15th comment is so apt...

Anywyz, mine wasnt random, I juz wanted to applaud u for ur post. Sooper dooper, I get annoyed no end on seeing WV too.. Infact, there might be 15 spams, but only the author gets bugged. If u leave it like tht too, it juz adds to the blog's popularity n the comments ;) Imagine 50 comments on the post and 50 bugged souls... So ur post is juz too good :D

WV sux big time!

Random Access
The search has just begun !!!

 
At October 27, 2005 4:25 am, Blogger Random Access said...

Btw, one trivia abt spam... It only affects the top post of the blog. Once u write another post, ur first post is spam free.. so always have a Hello spammer post on top..by changing the date of the post..

I shud get a nobel for this :P

Random Access
The search has just begun !!!

 
At October 27, 2005 4:45 am, Blogger LovingAndLosing said...

RA: At last, someone who agrees with me!!! Damn WV. At least, if the words were in the English language, I wouldn't complain half as much. Grr.. Don't worry though. You won't find it on my blog :D

 
At October 30, 2005 7:26 am, Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is not the 1st time I found someone trying to get back through a post at an anonymous automated bot spammer. Apart from letting off steam, how would it help ?

I dont use Word Verification or stuff like that. I get back at these mindless buggers by giving them a taste of their own medicine. We have an semi-automated process that collects SPAMmers mail IDs and give it to the other SPAMmers. :-)

If you want to know more, send me a mail at donthecat at gmail dot com and I'll send you the details.

 
At March 01, 2007 11:56 am, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Cool blog, interesting information... Keep it UP » » »

 

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