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“A Man Called Edgar Snatch” usually releases new updates each Wednesday. There will be no Edgar Snatch update today, but updates will resume as of next week on Wednesday – October 6th, 2010.

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A few weeks ago, I started saving all of my blog’s comment spam and putting all of the spam comments together. Rather than just deleting everything as I usually do, I’ve been reading each and every message and surprisingly, I’ve been amused.

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One week has passed since I announced my comment spam story project. I’m happy to say that the spam hasn’t slowed down since that announcement. I’ve gotten some great material to work with. I have close to 40 spam comments saved, some with some really weird content in them, and at this point I’m not quite sure how I’m going to string it all together into a coherent story.

I fully expect to have enough material to get started in one more week, and look forward to the new spam I’m going to get between now and then. It’s going to be a train wreck and a great practice in creativity at the same time.

Every blogger I know talks about the disease known as comment spam. I am going to use comment spam for this project.

Over the past several weeks, I’ve noticed the amount of comment spam on my blog go up. Luckily, Akismet catches almost 100 percent of the comment spam, and what’s missed is caught by me since I hold every comment for moderation before it is posted to the site. Some of the comment spam is cleverly disguised as legitimate comments and some of it is not. I usually get the spam that looks legitimate, the stuff that sells something or random strings of words that make no sense. Surprisingly, very little of the comment spam on this blog is the kind selling “natural enhancements” to gullible men with self-esteem problems.

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