Sunday, April 15, 2007

Calling Out the Internet

Today, I received an interesting email:
John Wrinn has left a new comment on your post "Update on stylesheet progress"

Really?

John Wrinn appears to be a Highly Successful Internet Loan Communication Agent On The Internet's Web 1.7b5. Why would John Wrinn comment on a seemingly inconsequential post from January of this year?

This is the post in question. John Wrinn found the post by this amazingly eloquent search string on yahoo: site:.edu "post a comment" -"you must be logged in"-"log in required" "blogspot".

Perhaps most surprising of this whole event is the entry in the logs for this visitor -
15 Apr 14:22:24 Firefox 2.0.0 Windows XP 1280x1024 United States 30.sub-70-208-203.myvzw.com (70.208.203.30)

So John Wrinn used the Power of the Internet Search Box to locate my website by a search for .edu sites that allow comments but don't require login, then posted spam on the results that he liked. He paid Verizon Wireless by the byte for this privilege, meaning that John Wrinn probably never bothered to investigate the fact that spending money on advertising to someone who is smarter than to click on links on his internet blog's comments sections posted by random people who are too useless to have real internet isn't a worthwhile investment in terms of his precious phone network data transfer totals.

Good Job, John Wrinn.

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