{"id":675,"date":"2006-10-30T22:35:35","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T22:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/675"},"modified":"2006-10-30T22:35:35","modified_gmt":"2006-10-30T22:35:35","slug":"spam-spam-spam-beaked-beans-spam-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/675","title":{"rendered":"Spam, spam, spam, beaked beans, spam, spam&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/tqmcube.com\/tide.php\">this graph of spam volume<\/a> by spam blacklister TQMcube, spam volume has increased more than tenfold in the past six months. I&#8217;m not sure if this is some kind of attempt to overwhelm spam-filters and blacklisting services or just another ratcheting up, but I do find it disheartening that doing a news search for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22massive+increase+in+spam%22\">&#8220;major increase in spam&#8221;<\/a> results in posts and news reports that span several years. (Thanks to Jeff for the link to the graph.)<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/tqmcube.com\/tide.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/legacy\/spam-trend-tqmcubed-small.gif\" border=\"1\" height=\"110\" width=\"387\" alt=\"spam-trend-tqmcubed-small.gif\" align=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/tqmcube.com\/tide.php\">this graph of spam volume<\/a> by spam blacklister TQMcube, spam volume has increased more than tenfold in the past six months. I&#8217;m not sure if this is some kind of attempt to overwhelm spam-filters and blacklisting services or just another ratcheting up, but I do find it disheartening that doing a news search for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22massive+increase+in+spam%22\">&#8220;major increase in spam&#8221;<\/a> results in posts and news reports that span several years. (Thanks to Jeff for the link to the graph.)<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/tqmcube.com\/tide.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/legacy\/spam-trend-tqmcubed-small.gif\" border=\"1\" height=\"110\" width=\"387\" alt=\"spam-trend-tqmcubed-small.gif\" align=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}