{"id":6787,"date":"2003-05-04T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-04T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/04\/6787\/"},"modified":"2017-11-02T14:29:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T19:29:40","slug":"6787","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/04\/6787\/","title":{"rendered":"From our Department of Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received two unsolicited e-mail messages this afternoon, on my <i>home<\/i> account no less, from some punk outfit calling itself <b>DarkSoft Group<\/b> wants me to give them twenty bucks for an <b><i>anti-spam remedy!<\/i><\/b>  <a href=\"http:\/\/solutions.icobb.com\/unbelievable_spam_message.htm\" target=\"new\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> the message, courtesy of some other guy who thinks as highly of them as I do.<\/p>\n<p>The ad claims you can download the product from the #1 download site on the Internet.  Let&#8217;s be frank: I don&#8217;t know how to discover any psuedo-scientific rankings, but I&#8217;ve always been a doubting Thompson, and I doubt that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networksolutions.com\/cgi-bin\/whois\/whois?STRING=sil00001.com&#038;SearchType=do&#038;STRING2.x=41&#038;STRING2.y=13\" target=new\">whoever www.sil00001.com is<\/a>, they get a lot of casual traffic from people who type sil00001 into the Address bar to find software.<\/p>\n<p>Let me see, give my credit card number to one or more punks collectively known by a name more suited to some 733t h4x0rz than a software company, and probably then provide them with the names and passwords to all my e-mail accounts?  What&#8217;s not to like about that deal?<\/p>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t have the twenty bucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received two unsolicited e-mail messages this afternoon, on my home account no less, from some punk outfit calling itself DarkSoft Group wants me to give them twenty bucks for an anti-spam remedy! Here&#8217;s the message, courtesy of some other guy who thinks as highly of them as I do. The ad claims you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17188,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787\/revisions\/17188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}