5 seconds of fame
I was quoted in a Wall Street Journal story:
Spammers also scour lists of email addresses for names that sound native to certain countries, analysts say. Kasia Trapszo, a programmer in New Britain, Conn., says she believes the 20 to 30 Russian spam messages she receives each week are due to her Polish last name, which "sounds Russian."
Comments
I'm quite sure that my name doesn't sound Korean though, but they keep sending me messages. Or any number of other Asian languages, which all just look like pretty, ornate hieroglyphics to me. :-)
At least, I've been presuming it's spam. I can't read it though, so maybe it's all just sincere messages from afar that I cannot comprehend.
Posted by: Travis P | December 10, 2005 01:55 PM
Well now. That's a nice solid 5 seconds.
Posted by: Josh | December 10, 2005 07:26 PM
Oh! And I thought you were going to make it a whole month without posting.
Did you get a free dinner out of the interview at least?
Posted by: Paul | December 10, 2005 10:12 PM
This won't explain the Spanish spam that I seem to get a lot of. Thankfully SpamAssassin can do a good job of detecting what language an email is in and penalising those not in English.
Posted by: Neil T. | December 12, 2005 01:00 PM
wow! you're famous! how'd you get in there?
Posted by: ann marie | December 12, 2005 10:35 PM
good to see u featured on wall street...:)
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