6 thoughts on “The Cyrillic Question”

1. Josh! You don’t know any Russians? For shame!

   Maybe what Gmail is trying to do is nudge you in the direction of befriending a Russian.

2. The truth is I’ve tried. But they always say нет!

3. I’m always befriending Russians, if you know what I mean.

4. double true! i get spam in several languages i do not actually speak- you’d think this would be just a little bit easier to defend against than normal spam, eh?

5. ok it gets worse- we are now getting Cyrillic spam comments on our blog- and they are blasting through akismet and our other spam protections without any effort… shouldn’t it be the opposite way around? shouldn’t comments in a different language be automatically suspect, and at the very least held back for moderation?

6. I’m guessing we’re seeing the slow trend of catchup in action here. I don’t know what specific techniques either gmail or akismet is using, but spamtrapping’s a reactionary game; they have to get by you before you can figure out how they’re getting by you.

   Hopefully it’ll tail off in a months time or so. Freakin’ spammers.