First we had e-mail and newsgroups, and then we had spam. Then we had blogs, and soon after we had blog comment spam. Luckily, here on our Wordpress based blog, Spam Karma 2 is doing a good job of keeping the spam away or, at least, under wraps.
Today I’ve witnessed the birth of a new kind of spam: bug tracking system spam. Since our projects are open source, we keep the ability to submit bugs open to anyone. Today, we got a "bug report" that appears to be Chinese spam. Ian ran it through a translator, and in fact, it is spam for some sort of LED display, as the URL they posted suggests.
I’m going to leave it in the database for a few days so anyone read this can check it out. Come Monday, I’m going to remove it from the database. I just wonder the effectiveness of spamming a bug tracking database that very few people read. Of course, I’ve increased the readership of that piece of spam by posting about it here in my incredulity.
