..spammy badness..

I didn’t realize how many forms spam could take until recently. I’ve had every type of spam e-mail you could think of from marketing crap to get rich quick schemes. Though you might not personally consider it spam, but pop up ads, pop under ads, and those websites you accidentally surf to when you mistype a url.. those all get lumped together with spam in my head. It’s not informational spam so much as it’s a visually invasive type of spam issue. I don’t know if that makes sense to you but that’s how I feel when I am subjected to it.

Anyway, a healthy discussion of how Elise feels about spam is not the point of this post. My blog has been subjected to comment spam, my boyfriend’s site has been subjected to comment spam, and most major blogs that I visit have been subjected to comment spam provided that they leave their comments open. This is an unfortunate situation. It’s not bad enough that I get over 100 spam e-mails a day to all of my personal accounts, but I also manage to pull in my fair share of comment spam lately. I actually banned IPs and domains because of it. The only good thing that’s come out of all of this spammy horsecrap is that the next version of Movable Type is going to have an option for registration to leave comments. Goodie gumdrops.

I also wanted to apologize for not being too commentish lately. I’ve been busy with work and school, and might have the flu right now, and Jason’s visiting in a couple of weeks… busy busy! I am also holding off on doing too much with my blog until I know more about MT 3.0. Anyway I’ll post again relatively soon.

Tags: blog, email, Geek, MovableType, SPAM

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