Comments on: Good news!

By: Tobias

Tobias — Mon, 26 May 2008 14:39:22 +0000

You should remove the “mailto:” link on this site. Bots, compareable to those of search engines, scan pages for matching email addresses and especially mailto links

Hope it helps,

By: admin

admin — Sun, 25 May 2008 14:22:33 +0000

thanks arnie - but what’s weird is that i thought i installed a plug-in for the blog that was supposed to do some behind the scenes encoding of that… i guess i need to look into it more.
thanks again for writing.

By: Amie

Amie — Sun, 25 May 2008 14:08:35 +0000

I think you’re getting the spam because even though you have it listed as tips at thingsyoungerthanmccain dot com, when you click that, it actually opens up a new email (on my MAC anyway) that works. Try making the email NOT a clickable link in order to reduce the comment form spam.

By: emily blake

emily blake — Sat, 24 May 2008 22:37:22 +0000

Is that the lady with cancer?

How can you not give money to the lady who lost her family and now has cancer? I mean she has CANCER!!! nobody with cancer can be lying.

Cancer is older than John McCain. But just barely.

By: Eleutheria

Eleutheria — Sat, 24 May 2008 16:33:17 +0000

I found your site through (wonder of wonders) a column in The Economist.

The title of the McCain piece this week? Indiana McCain and the Election of Doom.

By: Rob van Kan

Rob van Kan — Sat, 24 May 2008 14:41:48 +0000

How to stop it? Accept the deal - they will suck you dry so thoroughly that you can’t afford an email address anymore. Or a computer.

Life is simple.

By: Steve S

Steve S — Sat, 24 May 2008 13:46:46 +0000

The e-mail version of that scam is younger than John McCain, by a few decades.*

However, the scam itself is older than John McCain, by a few decades.

* It’s probably younger than I am.

By: Atlantics

Atlantics — Sat, 24 May 2008 12:36:19 +0000

We HAD to make it. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is just one month younger than candidate John McCain.

By: Roxana Farahmand

Roxana Farahmand — Sat, 24 May 2008 02:48:42 +0000

Gmail is lovely to me.
But I admit I love getting those emails. They always make me laugh.
Dear Roxana,
We’re drug dealers in need of hiding $20million but we’ll give you half of it if you hide it in your bank account…
Well okay, bring on the money then, I say (in my head, of course).

By: Lyn

Lyn — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:54:42 +0000

I don’t know if it would help in your situation, but if you visit a lot of websites that ask for your email address but that you don’t really want to get email from, you could try spamgourmet.com. They let you set up a different email address each time you need to give one. The first few emails from each new address will be forwarded to your real address, so you can confirm it. After that, though, the address will self-destruct so that no new messages can get through. Using it really cut down on my spam, but it’s no good for anything you think you’ll want to get more than a few emails from.

By: Pierre (From France, where we follow a lot American elections!)

Pierre (From France, where we follow a lot American elections!) — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:29:55 +0000

You forgot:

YODA is younger than John McCain (So McCain is older than a master Jedi who is more than 800 years old!)…

BATMAN is younger than John McCain,

GONE WITH THE WIND is younger than John McCain,

McCAIN’s fries are younger than John McCain,

Charlie Chaplin’s MODERN TIMES is as old as John McCain (So that’s why McCain is so… modern),

TOM & JERRY are younger than John McCain,

THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE is younger than John McCain,

The discovery of the Structure of DNA is younger than John McCain.

By: David A.M. Wilensky

David A.M. Wilensky — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:49:29 +0000

Not only is SPAM the food younger than John McCain, but the SPAM the internet phenomenon is younger than him as well!

By: jeff

jeff — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:39:34 +0000

Stop it? Why would you want to stop it?!

Check out the fun you can have with scammers:

http://www.419eater.com

By: ted

ted — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:23:39 +0000

Younger than McCain: Sierra Leone! (Independent since 1961, a “republic” since 1971.)

By: admin

admin — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:52:25 +0000

It’s weird because I thought that when I set up this (Wordpress) blog, I did it in such a way that obfuscated the email address for this very reason…. I guess it’s not perfect and that one gets what one pays for.
Thanks!