Before I started blogging, which by the way is easier on the joints, and not as taxing on my respitory system as jogging, I enjoyed a spam free life. At least, an e-mail spam free life.
I must admit that I can't blame our current spam trouble on blogging itself. At about the same time we were contacted by an old high school friend and I suspect he freelances as a spammer. I don't know for sure as I never asked him, but again, it happened at about the same time and he was un-employed by the traditional modes of employment.
Spam is annoying and I do have a filter, that tosses it all into a garbage can. On occasion I have to do some dumpster diving into this particluar waste receptical in order to retrieve what my computer thought of as junk, but I consider it treasure.
As with any dumpster diving you have to wade through the muck and slime and your eye just might be caught by something that could be pontentially valuable, but it turns out to be a piece of fools gold.
I thought I had heard somewhere, that spam was supposed to be illegal. It hasn't slowed down any that I can see. Some of it should be illegal. While I enjoy freedom of speech as much as the next American, if it is illegal for a woman to solicite sexual favors on the street, then why isn't it illegal for spammers to sell the same on my computer?
I must interject here with the comment that noone in my family has requested these pornographic salutations. You can check our computer history if you want to.
If spam, or at least perverted spam is illegal, then where do we report it?
On the same track, I was reading The Yak and it would appear that some bloggers are beggars. (I like the sound of that sentence!) If trackbacks were Yaks then bloggers would ride, so to speak.
I'm not a well read blogger like the Yak, but if I were I would decide on the same spam beggars policy as the Horned Great One. Sure I would like to rise above Flippery Fish in the TTLB but I don't see how begging popular bloggers to link me to their blog would actually make people read my posts regularly. I suppose it would generate an increase in hits, but I don't want people to just look at my blog, I want them enjoy it.
Besides noone likes a moocher, especially one that lives in my garbage can.
(If for any reason The Yak is reading this post due to my ride on the coat tails of said same, please do not take this as a request or feel obligated to link back to a puny little sagerat that leaves holes in the ground for yaks to break their legs in. Reading your post reminded me of my spam pet peeve and so I posted it.) (Thank you for your perusal.) |
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Welcome to the Anti-Spam brigade
