Occasionally I get a spam comment that’s simply beautiful. This is poetry, and I don’t have the heart to relegate it to the spam bin, but if I publish it as a comment I’d approve the emailer and risk future bad comments being automatically approved…. So I took out the URL the commenter was trying to sell and I’m posting it here, instead.

Submitted on 2012/02/09 at 17:27
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Do you think this is completely automatically generated, or hand-crafted?


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3 thoughts on “Spam poetry”

  1. Megs

    That is flippin crazy, yet utterly fun. I wish my spam was nearly as entertaining. 🙂

  2. Glenn Friesen

    Yes, indeed — that’s some poetic spam!

    It looks like the spammer intended for the spam to be “spun” — although it looks like their spam spinning software is broken… http://bit.ly/vOA4Av

  3. Jean Paul

    Right, u have the reason, recently i was reading the comments of my blog getting a similar poetic comment, hahaha.
    Take care!!

    “Could it be just me or does it give the impression like some of the remarks look like they are written by brain dead folks? And, if you are posting at additional sites, I’d like to keep up with anything fresh you have to post. Could you make a list every one of all your social pages like your linkedin profile, Facebook page or twitter feed?”

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