Spam is the abuse of electronic messaging systems [...] While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam [...]
Yes, dear spammer, we all know what spam is. No need to quote Wikipedia. The funny thing is that the spam post ended with Examples of spam: and four links to the well-known spammer's haven narod.ru (and it was this, of course, which triggered the spam filter for this post). For the record: The spam came from 77.126.161.23, which belongs to a company in Israel by the name of "012 Smile Communications LTD". We've had quite a bit of spam from Israel recently but I haven't checked yet if it's all coming from the same source there. Need to keep an eye on that ...
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