OK, what the heck is up with this?

is8145@philisha.net said 4 days later:

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just galloped into the court yard as the ladies, with tto, were about setting out on their excursion. hus the whole company consisted of five ladies and two gentlemen. he cows are not in the field —ba8db81b8f66e8d62d07360efa393a20—

I really don’t know what is going on here.

First we implement bayesian filtering, thinking, “They’ll never get past this, because they will have to mangle their messages to do so.” And what do they do? They throw their messages through a syllable-blender and sound like juvenile AOL kids. (Bu y my vgiara!!!11ONEONEONE LOL)

Then we implement rel=’nofollow’, thinking, “They won’t spam if they can’t get any pagerank for it.” And what do they do? They don’t even bother to check for rel=’nofollow’, they just keep wasting time on it anyway.

Then we implement a link limit on comments, thinking, “This will automatically reject all linkspams.” And what do they do? See above. It’s become absolutely mindless. No sane person could consider it a good idea to post the comment you see above. It only contains an email address. Half the time it’s not even a valid email address.

I really don’t have any explanation left. The best I can come up with is that these people are deranged misanthropists that enjoy others’ misfortune even if they don’t benefit by it at all. And that is a kind of spam we’ll never have a filter for.