Golden and I combine for about 150-200 spam emails each day. A while back I installed Thunderbird as my email application because it has spam filtering capabilities, and so the daily ritual for me after work is to run Thunderbird, wait a few minutes while the emails download then are filtered, and manually remove the spam that isn't filtered. This is annoying, but we live with it.
Now spam has started invading the blog world. I have noticed a significant increase in spam posts over the last few weeks. I removed four in an hour period yesterday. If someone wants to put a geniune (non-offensive) comment to a post on my site that is great, but making no comment about the actual topic then putting up a link to a cat furniture site is not a genuine post.
One separate thought on a related topic. Is most email at Pfizer (the company that makes Viagra) filtered as spam? It seems that half the spam I get is peddling Viagra or Cialis. Just a thought.
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I have had only one incedent of spam in the last month.
I haven't noticed it on your site at all. But I have read your comments that proudly proclaim that the spam has been removed and I am thinking "what spam?"
I think you are just trying to add up your comment tally. Next time make a comment to yourself and then add another comment to that comment and soon you'll be holding a conversation with yourself. :)
I have noticed the same spam comments on more than one site, so I have to wonder if there is some sort of program that says go post this comment on every site that has a new blog today. The one beauty of changing email addresses every now and then is that it takes a while for the spam to start adding up again. Right now we're pretty clean, but it's only a matter of time.
I'm glad you delete the spam. It disrupts the flow of the comments when left in. I have gotten some and also delete it, but apparently not like you are getting!
As for email spam. What seems to have worked (so far) for me is using an old email address for anything I look at on the web. my everest gets it all and I take a few minutes every now and then to delete it. I keep my gmail for friends and family only. I don't get spammed on it, or so it seems.
I love my gmail,it is spam free!
Okay, I don't know if this is for real or not? I smells like dar, but it is pretty believable and if that is legit spam why do they pick on you?
Okay, some of that had to be Dar Dar.
I have begun to wonder, have I been removing spam spoofs from Dar for the past couple of days?
I would pay real money to see spamalot - yes, even more than I would pay to see U2 ... with a backstage pass ... and dinner with Bono ...
Even if they threw in a chance to see Alice Cooper in Milwauke after a road trip of listening to Queen.
'shaaa .... as if..... and monkeys might fly out of my butt'
This last anonymous sounds like BB or Forrest for bringing up U2.
Love the Wayne's World reference. Party on anonymous!
Golden,
Notice I said that I would rather see spamalot than U2. Still think it's BB or forrest?
"Bealzebub has a devil set aside for me....for me....for meeeeeeee!"
Actually. I did the first one as Dar Dar. The rest I know nothing about. If you look at my newest post, I got 3 comments within ten minutes. I may have to start doing word verification. It might be a pain and an extra step to comment for everyone - but it might work! I tried deleting my Spam, and for some reason have not been able to even following all the correct steps. I notice most real Spam has a contact name in it somewhere... like "cheap satellite TV"... This is like having coffee night with a room full of roaming salespeople.
anonymous, I didn't know what spamalot was. Dust informed me it was Monty Python. I know who you are now... i see a little silhouetto of a man..
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