I got an email this morning to my waypoint generator email address asking where the person could get “waypoints for eastern Canada”. I asked if there was some specific problem with the waypoints that my generator provided? He responded that he couldn’t seem to get them to work with this list of three or four programs that he’d tried. I had never heard of them, so I looked up the ones I could find, and none of them said anything about supporting any data format that I provide in my waypoint generator (although one was listed as supporting GPX on the page that lists programs known to support GPX). I got the name of the data file that he’d produced from him and looked it up in the logs, and it appears that he’d generated a CoPilot file, a GPX file, and an AeroCalc file.
So it appears he was just trying random combinations of file formats and programs to see if he could magically find a combination that went together. I asked if that was what he was doing, and suggested he find a program that does what he wants and find what sort of data files it takes, he said that he was a pilot and a photographer, not a database expert.
I tried to explain that was like trying to open an Excel file in Photoshop, but I don’t think it’s getting through.
I guess I’ll never understand how people’s minds work. And I’m not entirely unhappy about that.
That’s an interesting sort of spam you’ve just gotten there. I wonder if it’s just for ad money or if it’s also meant as a search engine exploit.
But now the spam is gone, so my earlier comment is meaningless. Feel free to toast these as well.
Oh, I get those after every post. I don’t know why neither Akismet nor SpamKarma2 manages to catch them. I think they’re search engine exploits.
For those not following along at home, after I post to the blog, I almost always get a trackback saying “I just found this interesting post on the net about ” followed by quoting my whole post. Sometimes they’re even lamer, saying something like “[random name] just posted this:” followed by the complete text of my post.
I’m thinking about disabling trackbacks entirely because I almost never get anything but spam through them.
Ditto here on the trackback spams. It’s annoying, but I still get an occasional legitimate trackback that I find interesting to follow, so I keep them enabled.
Bloody spammers.