{"id":2892,"date":"2008-05-08T10:06:06","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T17:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/05\/08\/spam-quandry-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2008-05-08T10:06:06","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T17:06:06","slug":"spam-quandry-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/05\/08\/spam-quandry-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Spam quandry of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We just passed the thirtieth anniversary of the first unsolicited mass commercial Internet message, ie, spam message.\u00c2\u00a0 I did not mention it here or provide a link to it because I did so a year ago on the twenty-ninth anniversary, and there is nothing to say about it so much as &#8220;There it is.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 A museum piece.<\/p>\n<p>Today I go to my email inbox, and see a message from a &#8220;Greg Chan&#8221; with the subject line &#8220;I&#8217;m In My bedroom wearing nothing.\u00c2\u00a0 I want u:\u00c2\u00a0at www.&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 A little curious to see if the name matches the nature of the spam, which is to ask am I being sent a url to an address that will get me naked male pictures, or &#8212; as I suspect, did the name generator popped out &#8220;Greg Chan&#8221;?\u00c2\u00a0 The url does have a name in it.\u00c2\u00a0 Kathy.\u00c2\u00a0 The latter.\u00c2\u00a0 The spam generators don&#8217;t make sense to me&#8230; Greg is not sending me naked pictures from his bedroom; Kathy is&#8230; theoretically.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230; delete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just passed the thirtieth anniversary of the first unsolicited mass commercial Internet message, ie, spam message.\u00c2\u00a0 I did not mention it here or provide a link to it because I did so a year ago on the twenty-ninth anniversary, and there is nothing to say about it so much as &#8220;There it is.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}