Unexpected high priest of Satan found on friends list

[venta]

I have just received the weirdest LJ comment I've ever seen. It's on this thread:

http://venta.livejournal.com/269155.html

It looks like the sort of cobbled-together bilge that might feature in the body of spam email to try and fool Bayesian filters, but I'm baffled as to what it's doing on my LJ.

Comments

[secretrebel.livejournal.com]

I know one of the people listed in that mess. But it's a common name so perhaps I don't after all...

[venta.livejournal.com]

I definitely know one of the people (who's listed twice, ish). Don't think of it as being that common a name, but I suppose it could be coincidence.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

It's not coincidence. She has written about this loon on her own LJ a few times now. You've got the comment because she's on your friends list, I'd bet.

Here (now with correct link!)

[secretrebel.livejournal.com]

That post was made in May 2007!!! This nutjob is still spamming people about his obsession with the phrase?

Or maybe he wound up a spider/robot and set it spamming people for him.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

His mad-loon webpage seems to have disappeared but I'd bet he's still doing it himself. Mad loons tend to favour the personal touch...

[venta.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I do actually remember reading that at the time, now.

He seems to have veered off from complaining about use of the name, and just gone for generalised ranting.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Oh no, he is still complaining about the name. I find that kind of prose so hard to read that I'd missed it.

[secretrebel.livejournal.com]

I guess it might not be that common a name but it's not so unusual it couldn't be duplicated.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Does the IP address help any?

[venta.livejournal.com]

It doesn't help me, beyond letting me find out that Time Warner Telecom supply him with it.

My knowledge of IP address diganostics is limited, though - having tried whois and dig I'm out of options.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Sorry! :-(

Looks like a few people on my flist got rubbish from the M1n15try of Dr34m5 chap today. I had rather hoped he had drowned in his own lunatic bile by now, but sadly it appears not.

[venta.livejournal.com]

No need to apologise - it quite livened up my day. I appreciate it's probably distressing having your attempts to bring about the fall of the prophet constantly exposed like this, but from an observer's point of view it's anthropologically rather interesting :)

[hjalfi.livejournal.com]

There is a theory that at least some spam is actually sent by deeply confused aliens trying to send messages through our global communications network, which they have totally failed to understand.

I never said it was a good theory, mind.