2000 Called, It Wants Its “Your Site Doesn’t Work In Internet Explorer” Spam Back

~ James Viscosi

After weeks if not months of things being fairly quiet on the spam front, it has recently exploded into activity again, with three pages of miles-long Walls! Of! Text! in Russian, meaningless “Oh yes I totally agree with your premise but not your conclusions” and “I’ve been surfing the net for hours and your site finally solved my problem” word-vomit on posts that contain neither premises nor conclusions nor solutions. And there’s this little chestnut; it reminds me of the halcyon days of yore when you had to include special code to make your website render in IE, the bastard red-haired stepchild of browsers that, like the members of Fleetwood Mac, insisted on going its own way:

Yes, Arderbor Elnot, I bet it does have some overlapping in Internet Explorer, the final version of which was taken out back and shot in 2022. So yeah I will definitely hop into my time machine and go back 20 years to fix that compatibility issue; or maybe I’ll go even farther back and address the problem at its root:

BRB, time traveling to 1995 to prevent Internet Explorer from ever being created.

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16 thoughts on “2000 Called, It Wants Its “Your Site Doesn’t Work In Internet Explorer” Spam Back”

  1. 😂 Spam comments are getting more ridiculous by the day! The Internet Explorer reference is priceless—nothing like receiving technical advice from a time traveller who hasn’t realised that the browser is practically ancient history.

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      1. Absolutely! 😄 Four years is practically a lifetime in the fast-moving world of web browsers and technology. Things change so quickly that what was common yesterday can become history today!

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  2. I sympathize with computer-related issues. I haven’t been able to directly log into my WordPress site for a couple of days so far. When I log on to WP, it takes me directly to my dashboard, but I can’t access or post posts. After a few hours of troubleshooting, I’ve narrowed the problem down to only everything. My internet provider is on it. I have nothing but confidence in them.

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    1. I don’t know what’s going on with WordPress lately! Since the weekend it’s been making me (well, the animals) log in at any WP site they’re trying to comment on, instead of just using OAuth or whatever it used to do to keep them logged in across all WP sites. I hope you can get your issues sorted out with the help of your Internet provider ― I’m sure my sarcasm detector is malfunctioning when it keeps beeping at the part where you give them your vote of confidence … 😂

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  3. Hmm, the twitter community said today that Russian bots suddenly ceased activity… Did they jump to WordPress instead? Like a pack of bloodthirsty hell hounds! Just checked my SPAM folder— had a few more messages than usual, dated this past week. No Russian… YET. Dun-Dun-DUNN🤨

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      1. Ha, yeah, that’s pretty much a full-sized (though not bigger on the inside) TARDIS that was a Little Free Library (well, okay, being full of books, maybe it was bigger on the inside) out in Ramona. After my original post I actually heard from the girl scout who set it up and then from the people who ran the coffee shop where it used to be, so it kind of turned into a bit of a conversation piece on the blog back in 2019.

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    1. Oh, yeah, I used the Netscape Navigator suite (integrated browser, mail client, calendar, HTML editor, etc..) for the longest time, and then when that was discontinued I switched to its open source successor Seamonkey (integrated browser, mail client, calendar, HTML editor, etc.), and then when I needed features it didn’t have ― mainly 1Password integration ― I switched to Vivaldi (integrated browser, mail client, calendar, HTML editor, etc.). So apparently I like my email integrated with my browser lol

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  8. This made me laugh. Spam comments really do have their own strange little universe — wildly specific, completely irrelevant, and somehow always written with total confidence. The Internet Explorer line was perfect. At least if the bots insist on wasting our time, they can occasionally give us something entertaining to write about.

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