I get comment spammers. Mostly I just nuke them. This one was spamming some site, but the name was great. This was the spammer's "user name":
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This reminds me of the Monty Python skit with the "silly party" and the "very silly party".
So, the New Yorker's article on spam may contain plagiarism. What's weird about this is that the source (Spamhaus) has blanket permission to quote them with attribution, but that the quoted material, rather than being attributed, is very slightly modified.
I don't get it.
That said, the article (Damn Spam) is quite nice; it just seems like it would have been more polite to simply quote directly and attribute the quote.
Local bridge collapses, during rush hour. I don't yet know of anyone I know who was there at the time, but it's still pretty scary.