“I will dream of your poetic words tonight.”

“Good up the good work.”

“Your article was very interesting to my”

My blog uses Wordpress, and one of the main reasons I chose it was that blocking spam comments was so incredibly easy. I swear, sometimes I get more spam hits in a day than I get real visits in a week.

Anti-spam is a way of life, not a destination. One must accept that machines can be taught to send 95% of spams to a spam folder, and keep 95% of useful mail in the InBox. Then it is up to us to verify and train.
The advantage of using a filter is that we can scan the InBox optimistically, and the spam folder pessimistically. In both cases we report the errors to the filter, and try to keep its ratio up.

My ISP uses the X-spam filter to flag those it considers most likely abusers from the vantage of thousands of accounts. I then use message rules in (I admit) Outlook Express to choose folders to send mail for my various identities and probable spam.

I plan to move to Thunderbird, one of these days.

These guys are making it much harder for many of us to make use of the Internet. They are doing it intentionally and any jury would be able to see through their BS claims that they really enjoyed the articles and were making sincere comments.

There’s got to be a way . . .

I cannot set a spam filter for my videography business email. I never know from where I will be getting a work request and can’t afford to miss a single one. I woke this morning to find 75 emails in my inbox, only three of which were relevant to my business. Thanks spammers, for making me have to search for a needle in a haystack every day!

The outrage will come. Then the outcry. Then the government. Then the regulation. Goodbye free internet.