"Good morning, sir. And what do you do?"
"Well, I'm a doctor working out of your local hospital. I help to make sick people well again."
"Very nice. Very nice, indeed. And you ma'am, what do you do for a living?"
"Good morning. My partner and I are landscapers. We help beautify your neighborhood with plants, stones, fountains...that type of thing."
"Oh yes, I think I've seen your work. Very Impressive. And you sir? What do you do?"
"I work in an IT department at a local company. I help users with problems and I help keep software current so that productivity can be high."
"Hmm, very good. And we do appreciate the help. And how about you, over there in the corner. Bob, I think you said your name is?"
"Yes, I'm Bob. I spend my time trying to figure out how to flood comments and inboxes with messages that nobody wants. I am really just a pest and provide no benefit whatsoever to society. I am nothing more than a negative. In fact, if I and my ilk were to be eradicated from the planet, your current society would actually be happier. I am a disease."
"Ummm, ok Bob. That's, well, that's just fabulous. Thank you. Your parents, assuming you have any, must be very proud."
Posted by Buzz at October 7, 2004 06:42 AMYeah - Bob sucks ass.
Posted by: Kate at October 7, 2004 07:58 AMHaving some spam problems this morning Buzz? :)
*kicks Bob in the nuts*
Posted by: sphinx at October 7, 2004 08:10 AMIf only it were that easy to call Bob out... and then maim him.
Posted by: amber at October 7, 2004 08:25 AMBob...grrrrrrrrrrrrr
Posted by: debby at October 7, 2004 08:35 AMthat would be a fantastic guilt trip if guilt trips worked on spammers. unfortunately, because spammers have NO SOUL, they don't.
Posted by: geeky at October 7, 2004 08:36 AMMy spammer's name is Bob? If I have more than one, are they all named Bob? Does this mean that I get to track down all the Bob's of the world and kick their asses and confiscate their computers?
It would be nice if that was true. :P
Posted by: Rogue at October 7, 2004 08:49 AMBob is a slimy scum-sucking bottom-feeding dirt-f0r-brains no-good sleazy piece of crud who has nothing better to do than turn thousands of innocent (or ignorant) broadband users' home computers into mindless spam pumps.
Isn't that nice? I didn't curse one f*cking time.
Yeah I got my visits from Bob as well...stupid f%cker.
Posted by: judy at October 7, 2004 09:43 AMHey! I know that DUDE!
Posted by: tj in AZ at October 7, 2004 10:54 AMyou're running MT-Blacklist, right? it's a godsend -- without it, i would have gotten rid of my blog a long time ago. right now it's blocking between 50 to 75 comment spam attacks to my blogs per day. as far as email spam goes, the single most important thing you can do is to not leave a "contact me" email address on any web site unless you encrypt it. like your gmail address you've got over there on the side? it ain't encrypted and it's getting harvested by every spam-bot that crawls on by. trust me, one of my jobs here at work is to try and protect the corporate addresses on our web sites from being spammed.
go check out http://automaticlabs.com/products/enkoder for more information and for an easy freeware solution.
Posted by: P at October 7, 2004 11:04 AMI got ya covered. Check your email Buzz.
Posted by: Connie at October 7, 2004 11:15 AMKill Bob!
Posted by: Tom at October 7, 2004 11:25 AMBob also advertises Enzyte.
Posted by: etherian at October 7, 2004 05:12 PMThank God my name is Jon. Phew..dodged a bullet there didn't we?
Posted by: Strode at October 7, 2004 05:58 PMSnort...I bet "Bob" isn't even his real name...yeah, probably Fred or something!! I don't heart Bob. Of course it's becasue of Bob that I get very few comments since I use typekey to register comments. Hate Bob..very funny post though.
Posted by: fran at October 9, 2004 12:47 PM
-d: How do you feel about being Governor of Indiana?
[Buzz it]
Global Warming, my ass!
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