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Is bad spam really spam?

Every now and then this blog gets a shower of spam messages. Most of them are easy enough to identify as spam and it is easy to identify the purpose of the messages. Most or all of these messages have links to websites so basically the spammer is trying to affect googles ranking system. But every now and then a bunch of messages drop in that do not follow this logic. Last night 16 messages slipped through the spam filter.

All the messages come from the IP address 204.45.209.166 (with variations on the last number set) all senders have hotmail email addresses which have no relation to the names they use and the content of the messages are friendly, complementary, contain no links and have nothing to do with the post they are commenting:

All the time good to see, this was apparent an excellent post. In theory I wish to write like this too. You want time to creat that informative and in addition lots of effort to create a brilliant article.

In addition to this all have given their web address as www.google.com. Its all very confusing. Is it just bad (as in inefficient) spam? Or have I missed something. Why bother spamming people without apparent reason?

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Highlights in the History of Concrete…

What have the following books got in common:

How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art (Ten Speed Press)

How to Avoid Huge Ships (Cornwell Maritime Press)

Highlights in the History of Concrete (British Cement Association)

Bombproof Your Horse (J A Allen)

Well they have all won the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. This prize has been awarded for the past thirty years and you can check out the other strange titles here. Some of them are just odd, but who knows with the right marketing…

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Olympic Snacks

Not being much of a sports person I usually don’t get excited by sporting events but the Olympics are a natural exception. While looking around I found a olympic blog which had some exotic local information about the local food market…

how about Starfish…

…or Scorpion on a stick…

They also have silkwork, squid and seahorse…

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Proud to be Swedish (not)

Coming back from a vacation always requires effort and since I was both offline and without newspapers (the latter was by choice) I am now busy catching up. One thing catches my eye – the BBC reports that a schoolteacher in Sweden confiscated a birthday cards on the grounds that those not invited were being discriminated against!

When things like this happen it makes me annoyed to be Swedish!!! What I want to know is: does the teacher who confiscated the cards invite all the people she does not like when she/he has a party?

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