Archives for: April 2008
Do you get blue emails?
Posted in : Silly O'clock quotes
Apparently I do
Please note : Some participants names have been obscured to protect the innocent 
tuxnus:yabba_hh: unluckyJust spent about a week making a new template for my companys newsletter. Guess what? CSS is hardly supported by email clients, both on and offline. Notably gmail, which has nearly no support at all.
So I have to redesign the whole thing in tables. AAAAAAARRRGHHH!!!
So there are times when tables still have to be used.
'Die Tables Die' indeed!
Ed
yabba_hh: I suppose this isn't the time to tell Ed that all my emails are "plain text" only, so shit like "my comments are in blue" tiotally fail?
tuxnus: which is why i italicized them
tuxnus: (for the color-impared)
yabba_hh: and you managed to do that in plain text by ....... ?
tuxnus: well, yer a moron
yabba_hh: lmfao
tuxnus: read (a most unusual character)
tuxnus: unique
yabba_hh: uhuh
tuxnus: odd
tuxnus: eccentric
tuxnus: weird
tuxnus: obtuse
tuxnus: cryptic
tuxnus: one of a kind
yabba_hh: as opposed to "of course italics will work if plain text format is all his client accepts and he can't see my colour"
tuxnus: I thought they would
yabba_hh: fuckin' muppet
Educated spammers
Posted in : Spam Trap
Hard to believe huh?
The good new is that they're running Wordpress 2.3.3 which is exploitable ... so now the spammers are gonna have their blogs spammed by the spammers .... kinda poetic really.
I stumbled across this site ( http://blogs.pi.edu/ ... no link love for you biatch ) whilst I was wandering around the web. It's a dot Edu which has opened it's doors to the public and allows them to create their very own .edu blog for a mere $50 a month. That's right, for the princely sum of $50 the spammers can now have a blog on one of the most respected TLD's on the web ..... no longer do they need to search for obsolete .edu message boards to fill with their crap they can have their own shiny sub domain to play with
Time to blacklist pi.edu?
Perish the thought, they're totally against spam, you can tell just by reading their TOS :
PI.edu is a community specifically created for webmasters involved in educating the public about their websites and the products and services that they offer.
To maintain the high standards of this community, we have some simple requirements to administrate a blog on the PI.EDU network.
*** Keep your blog family friendly
***No Porn related Blogs
***No blogs promoting casino gambling
***No RX blogs promoting sites that sell drugs in the US without a PERSONAL doctor’s prescription.
***Your blog must contain original educational content that teaches and educates readers.
***Your blog may not present untrue data in order to mislead readers.
***No Link Farm Blogs.
***PI.EDU has the right to terminate your monthly membership if we feel your blog is detrimental to the PI.EDU blog community.
***If you discontinue payment for your blog, PI.EDU has the option to keep the blog up and running.By ticking the box below you agree to follow this TOS and agree to any decisions PI.edu makes concerning whether your blog is a good fit for our community.
Cool now I feel reassured .... if only it wasn't absolute bollocks ..... a cursory glance over the blogs that have already been set up will show you that it's soon gonna be a full blown spam source ... no worries though, because at least it'll be educated spam huh? 
¥
