Most of the comments to this blog are –unfortunately –spam. WordPress’s Akismet filters them out and I periodically review and delete them all. I don’t know why I bother,but once I had a real comment black-listed,so I keep making the effort. It is also semi-interesting to see how the spam attacks changed over time from automatic to semi-manual looking efforts.
Today’s collection had a comment that gave me a double take. It went like this:
–strange junk–
Kiel
vi fartas?
–spam links–
G^is revido
Which is obviously esperanto for ‘How are you’and ‘See you later’(though I prefer x notation myself in Gxis revido).
So,what happened there? I can see three options:
- Esperanto speaking spammer who decided to switch the ‘hello’text upon seeing an Esperanto category in my blog
- Automatic software that looked for all blogs that mentioned Esperanto with hopes that the ‘less frequent’language will not trigger spam filters
- Some sort of automatic spam algorithm picking out greetings based on the content of the blog;if that’s the case,the fact that somebody bothered adding Esperanto to their list is –in a perverse way –a cause to celebrate
I don’t think I will ever find out what happened,unless the original spammer comes back and comments on this post with the answer. Still,it is a food for thought.
