MemeMachineGo! harvested by spammer and its good name invoked as subject line bait
How flattering. Or something.
A reader this morning forwarded spam she'd received whose subject was:
http://www.mememachinego.com/archives/
and whose content had to do with publicity through search engine registration and spamming.
In case anyone who might be unclear on the subject receives it, we here at MMG! loathe spam (we're even vegetarians), had nothing to do with this, and we were in no way complicit in its sending — the mail wasn't through our server; the only connection is that they used an MMG! URL as the subject line, and there's nothing we can do about that. It seems likely the email address was harvested from a comment to an MMG! entry; I'd point out that including an email address isn't required to comment here, and, in general, I strongly recommend against posting your undisguised email address anywhere on the web.
I'll have to note that in the comments form.
My apologies to anyone else who receives or received it.
=v= Hmm. "MMF!" is anti-spammer jargon for "Make Money Fast!" and similar schemes. MMG! ends with a G and that rhymes with T and that means Trouble! Trouble in Meme City!
Posted by Jym on September 16 2002 15:57