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: