Spammers…

…they keep trying. The bots keep trying. I’m assuming they’re bots, since once they do get on, they don’t seem to do anything but sit there. I’m getting pretty good at certain phonemic sets that don’t even try to vary, and if I have let one through, because I search by phoneme (smallest pronounceable unit of langage) I am almost certain to turn it up again. I’m getting a real feel for the set in use. So tiresome. I’m a little suspicious of some sort of bot network operating out of Nigeria but routing through Romania, or vice versa, and I’m wondering if it’s a software connection, a bot that was written in Nigeria. It’s really amazing how the same phonemes keep popping up in Nigeria, Romania, even China…and puzzling as to what they hope to do, ultimately, since somebody with a server named (one of the funnier ones) handbagsforyou is not too likely bent on world domination. But you never know how such things, allowed to sit there, could behave. So I faithfully boot them off.

If you are a legitimate reader who just happens to be using handbagsforyou as your server, alas, I am sorry. And if your name really is xiohgoaqg, again, I do apologize, but I am highly suspicious. And I have no desire to wait and see what these accounts ultimately do when the Evil Overlord sends the command down the network…