Tag Archive for 'Spam'

 Akismet has caught 52 spam for you since you first installed it.

Spam is probably one of the things I hate most about the Internet. I despise it, who doesn’t?! It’s a lose-lose situation and yet it thrives. Companies out there are paying people money (probably quite a lot too) to spam which while not illegal is a really unethical business practice but where’s the return on their investment? Unless I’m the only person who doesn’t click on all the links in my spam emails and comments? How can it be worth their while spending all this money for something which 99.99% of their target audience are going to ignore… and so some people go to extraordinary lengths to filter spam, the spammers still slave away figuring out ways to do their evil deed.

It’s interesting watching the spam start to build up on here since it has moved to the new location. I got hit by 20 or so very similar comment spams yesterday and 5 since I removed those just now. Akismet was doing a perfect job of protecting against them but no spam filtering system can be perfect and it let one through the net, I suppose I can’t complain though.

It’s shocking that, according to Akismet statistics, only 10% of blog comments are ham (aka. not spam!)… So keep sending me your ham, not literally obviously – that wouldn’t work. Just be aware, I’ve got comment moderation enabled for your first-time ham comments but any comments after that should get through without a hitch