First off, this is a little off topic. I want to talk about the spam we receive on our blog. Now, of course everyone gets billions of spam messages every day. Hopefully not a lot of people read them thanks to email filters. But with blog spam, you basically have to read it. Every day we get about 10-20 spam comments on various posts in the blog, most of which are filtered out automatically by our software. As with all spam, the comments run the gamut from nonsensical to amusing to offensive. Here is a recent sampling from some we received in the past day:

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Geben mir bitte eine a rel=”nofollow” =”http://monika-levinsky***.com/”>poker Brotchenaam - I deleted the full address on the URL, but it was pretty amusing that this domain was presumably trying to capatalize on the Monica Lewinsky’s name, which would have been useful maybe about eight years ago. For some reason he also included “nofollow” in his address, which automatically tells search engines not to go to his link. That is a spammer thinking outside the box. Also, the user name for this one was satan4aam.

If an average book is 300 pages long and there are about 350 words per page that means that there are roughly 105,000 words in a book. I am going to add up the amount of words are left in our spam comments every day to see how long it takes us to accumulate a book. I have no idea how long this will take, but it should be somewhat entertaining and mildly informative. After that, I assume the next logical step is to take all those spam words and publish a book full of insights on where to find the best online poker sites, prescriptions and can’t miss stocks.

Stay tuned. Also, if anyone has their own amusing spam messages to share, go ahead and post a comment below.