{"id":189,"date":"2005-04-21T14:09:51","date_gmt":"2005-04-21T21:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=189"},"modified":"2019-01-09T02:56:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T02:56:48","slug":"spam-from-spamalot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/21\/spam-from-spamalot\/","title":{"rendered":"Spam from Spamalot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read recently a NY Times article about how somebody pretty easily <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/03\/14\/technology\/poguesposts\/14pogues-posts.html?ex=1114228800&amp;en=5f27be43ee18bcf7&amp;ei=5070\">cracked the e-mail signup page at montypythonsspamalot.com.<\/a> There were all 19,000 registered e-mail addresses, ripe for copying and adding to mailing lists. Which, of course, leads to spam. The irony is just too rich. The very term &#8220;spam,&#8221; as applied to junk e-mail, originally came from an old Monty Python skit.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, you gotta love Eric Idle, the driving authorial force behind &#8220;Spamalot.&#8221; In his show memoir at the Web site, he writes: &#8220;Thank God for computers, because mine tells me I began writing the first draft of Spamalot on Monday December 31st 2001. I downloaded the text of the [Monty Python and the Holy] Grail [movie] from one of the many illicit websites, which thankfully saved me all the bother of typing out the script and I could paste and cut and rewrite as necessary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He downloaded his own illegal script to save himself time the lazy bastard. I love it!<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/technology\/poguesposts\">Pogue&#8217;s Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read recently a NY Times article about how somebody pretty easily cracked the e-mail signup page at montypythonsspamalot.com. There were all 19,000 registered e-mail addresses, ripe for copying and adding to mailing lists. Which, of course, leads to spam. The irony is just too rich. The very term &#8220;spam,&#8221; as applied to junk e-mail, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[100,255,593,630],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-broadway","tag-funny","tag-spam","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3891,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/3891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}