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Some of you may have noticed that comments on recent posts have gone missing. If you haven’t noticed, I sure as hell have. Posts since November 2009 that had comments still say that they do in the meta-link at the top of the post (e.g. “2 comments,” etc.), but those comments just don’t appear at [...]
As some of you may recall, back on February 4th I put up a post which began:
It’s February 4th, assholes. Do you still actually think the city garbage men are going to pick up your Christmas tree?
Why mention it again, lo these many months later? Yes, I’m afraid so:
Don’t say it.
But you-
Don’t even say it, because I know.
[in unison]
Oh my God, I thought you had quit blogging.
Oh my God, I thought you had quit blogging.
Told you I knew.
Of course you knew, we’re the same person. What, d’you think you’re cool because you can read your own mind?
A lot of the public doesn’t realize how sophisticated the [pharmaceutical industry's] marketing techniques have become, really over the last 10 years… Essentially when a pharmaceutical company gets FDA approval for a drug, their marketing department can assure their bosses that they are going to be able to sell the drug, really whether the drug [...]
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Spam Bots: Flattery Will Almost Get You Everywhere
November 22, 2009 | 3 comments
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Throughout the nearly four years of this blog’s existence, the Akismet plugin has consistently kept C&B free of comment spam. As I understand it, what Akismet does with my blog comments is pretty much the same thing that spam filters do with your email inbox. There is one difference, though, at least in my experience.
I use Gmail, and I’d estimate that maybe four or five spam emails per month manage to sneak past Gmail’s filters and get to my inbox. No big deal. Once or twice a month I scroll quickly through my Gmail spam folder to check for false positives, and there normally are one or two. Pretty good spam blocking overall, wouldn’t you say? Me too.
Well, get this: in the history of this blog, I cannot recall even once finding a false positive in my Akismet comment spam queue. Read the rest of this entry »
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