{"id":6134,"date":"2004-05-12T21:18:32","date_gmt":"2004-05-13T04:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/05\/12\/really-stupid-evil-bastards.html"},"modified":"2004-05-12T21:18:32","modified_gmt":"2004-05-13T04:18:32","slug":"really_stupid_e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/05\/12\/really_stupid_e.html","title":{"rendered":"<i>Really <\/i>stupid evil bastards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all due apologies to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stupidevilbastard.com\" title=\"The self-styled SEB\">Les<\/a>, I have to give that particular title to the spammers who have evidently taken my domain name, come up with every possible permutation of letters (out to ten characters or so), and spewed them in a horrid spray across the Internet in an attempt to get people to buy all manner of goods and services &#8212; or, alternately, in an attempt to spread Trojans and Virii across the Web.  The result is easily forty to fifty bounces a day back to <i>my <\/i>home account, and a growing fear that, sooner or later, someone&#8217;s going to blacklist my domain over this.<\/p>\n<p>So, in case anyone is wondering, you have my assurance that there is nobody here named Qoaqkkxbwy, Hyldpx, Kdeclai, Bonytdeg, Gafnuw, Opdxrwy, Hnvdyfcw, Jtxvy, nor Aedpo, let alone someone interested in selling you Hydr0c0d0ne and V1c0d1n, or X.anax.  You have my word on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all due apologies to Les, I have to give that particular title to the spammers who have evidently taken my domain name, come up with every possible permutation of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14428,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/03\/good-day.html","url_meta":{"origin":6134,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;GOOD DAY&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-Apr-09 9:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometimes I don't think these guys are even bothering to try very hard. 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