Friday
Mar252005
A short rant on something that is bugging me
Friday, March 25, 2005 at 9:00PM
It never rains but it pours - not one post from me in weeks and now 2 in less than 2 hours.
Anyhow this one I am afraid is not going to contain references to cool stuff or happy things or anything good. To be honest it is going to be a bit of a rant.
When I set up this blog I did not bother putting any controls on who could post and whether their posts needed to be authorised. You see I was of the belief that ths site was going to be my forum for saying what I thought about stuff in general - but also it would be a forum for people to respond to my musings. I thought - and yes in hind sight it was naive - they people would be respectful enough to behave in a relaxed way and would be free to express their opinions.
About one week from starting the blog I noticed that there were comment - Yes someone had read something that I had written and they were provoked into responding - So I logged in and had a look only to find that it was spam. Yep spam from some naff on-line site had spam commented on my site. I was annoyed, but hey stuff happens - what you going to do. On one hand it was quite nice - you know someone had found this site but on the other hand - man why could it not have been something cool. So I set up controls - I now have to authorise posts when they come in and say that they are fine to be posted on the site. This is not really a problem but today I was annoyed because when I logged into my mail I had a number of comments waiting for authorisation - all of which were spam. You know what they are not going to get on the site - I have deleted them but it has bugged me.
Spamming is a pain and would seem to be one of the downsides to using the net but you know what - on sheer principle I would not use of purchase anything from a site that came via spam. Quite frankly Mr Spammer - you and your company can bog off (for want of a better phrase) I don’t like you or want anything from you or your company.
To anyone who does post - I am sorry - I will authorise your posts as soon as I can and I am sorry it is necessary but there you go.
Anyhow this one I am afraid is not going to contain references to cool stuff or happy things or anything good. To be honest it is going to be a bit of a rant.
When I set up this blog I did not bother putting any controls on who could post and whether their posts needed to be authorised. You see I was of the belief that ths site was going to be my forum for saying what I thought about stuff in general - but also it would be a forum for people to respond to my musings. I thought - and yes in hind sight it was naive - they people would be respectful enough to behave in a relaxed way and would be free to express their opinions.
About one week from starting the blog I noticed that there were comment - Yes someone had read something that I had written and they were provoked into responding - So I logged in and had a look only to find that it was spam. Yep spam from some naff on-line site had spam commented on my site. I was annoyed, but hey stuff happens - what you going to do. On one hand it was quite nice - you know someone had found this site but on the other hand - man why could it not have been something cool. So I set up controls - I now have to authorise posts when they come in and say that they are fine to be posted on the site. This is not really a problem but today I was annoyed because when I logged into my mail I had a number of comments waiting for authorisation - all of which were spam. You know what they are not going to get on the site - I have deleted them but it has bugged me.
Spamming is a pain and would seem to be one of the downsides to using the net but you know what - on sheer principle I would not use of purchase anything from a site that came via spam. Quite frankly Mr Spammer - you and your company can bog off (for want of a better phrase) I don’t like you or want anything from you or your company.
To anyone who does post - I am sorry - I will authorise your posts as soon as I can and I am sorry it is necessary but there you go.
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