Spam Spam Spam Spam
Cats: blogs|Lately, GT has been receiving forty to fifty comments per day, virtually all of them complimentary. Here’s a taste:
From Ralph: I am very impressed how you can build webpages! Please also visit my site:
From Franklin: Great looking site so far!! I’m just starting to look around it but I love the title page! Would you please also visit my site?
From Katrina: Hey bro! Well Done! Visit my sites, please:
Wait a minute? I’m not your brother, Katrina. I’m not even a brother.
From Lawrence. Nice guest book. Nice webpage, lovely, cool design. Please also visit my site:
Hey! I don’t have a guest book either! What is this? Who are you people?
Well, these are the spammers, of course. They hit my work email too although the pitches are usually a little different. Here, the offer a saccharin compliment and then hit me with a litany links to useful things like member enhancement drugs just what I needed, polyphonic ringtones, just what I need2, more noise, carisoprodol huh?, prozac oh right, that, a cheap tagheuer replica watch just what I needed 3, plastic surgery maybe I should consider? auto loan calculator is it free? health care coverage live in Canada, no thanks and videos for violent lesbian sex oh, brother! Some messages contain ten or twenty links, other close to hundred, maybe more.
I could go on, but you get the picture. Spam is the online mosquito that buzzes around your blog whether you like it or not.
My spam catcher Askimet filters these messages so you won’t have to read them but every morning I face a litany. I just have to hit the delete button and they’re gone. Sometimes real commentators get caugh, like Deepti did yesterday.(You’re out now, Deepti)
But given the sheer number of these things, you have to wonder if one day in future we won’t wake up to discover that the entire Internet is locked up to a tsunami of spam. And I’m not so sure that day is so far off in the future, either.
June 28th, 2007 at 6:16 am
I never get any spam. It must be because my penis is already big enough and my mortgage too…
June 28th, 2007 at 6:25 am
Sniff, okay, I’ll stop crying now
June 28th, 2007 at 6:26 am
P.S. I get virtually No spam on gmail. (Maybe once every four months?)
June 28th, 2007 at 6:51 am
The powers that be are actively cracking down on spammers. Some are doing time. I watch too much TV.
June 28th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
LOL Tanya Espanya - that may be the single funniest comment I have ever read…
My spam levels have decreased ever since I started using a specific email that I give out when required by companies etc… that I figure will just sell it on, which lets me check it on my terms, rather than jamming my usual accounts.
June 28th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Espanya, yes, hahahahaha
Deepti, you didn’t end up in the spam today
Dick, where ever you imbibe the info that produces your take on life, please keep it up and keep imparting your wisdom here.
TB, can I borrow that email you use for junk
June 28th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
I’m pink, therefore I’m spam.
June 29th, 2007 at 6:29 am
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