I love a good con, and it's instructive to teach people how they are tricked so that it doesn't happen to them. One of my favorite spams happened a couple of w

I love a good con, and it's instructive to teach people how they are tricked so that it doesn't happen to them. One of my favorite spams happened a couple of weeks ago. The spammer said he had written a very long post about my excellent article, but his computer crashed, so he wasn't going to repeat it. This is very similar to "Gee, if you could only have read my comment, you would have loved how on-topic and awesome it was!" We've created this system where we are paying people to drop by our blogs and tell us how awesome we are. Strange world.