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Kings of the Wild Frontier

I feel like Navin Johnson getting his name in the phone book. Spammers have found my blog.

This is the kind of spontaneous publicity I need! … That really makes somebody! Things are going to start happening to me now.

I hate spammers. All the appeal of the potted meat from whence they derive their name, plus the smell of moral rot and ethical decay.

And they’re everywhere. Wordpress makes it pretty easy to keep them under control, but phpBB, which runs my forum elsewhere, also seems to be a pretty big target. I’ve spent an unbelieveable amount of time cleaning the database out just so some idiot can’t hawk their phentermine online, promote XXX foot nookie, or whatever these deviant pustules are pushing nowadays. I don’t even know what half this stuff is, and I don’t think I want to.

Not like ranting about it will do any good. If there were any justice in the world, stupidity would be painful, and most spammers would immediately die of massive, spontaneous brain explosions. Messy, but most satisfying. On the other hand, that would also be the end of much of the Britney Spears fan base. Not sure how I feel about that.

While I wait on the whole brain-exploding thing, it’d be nice if I could find a nice spammer-avoidance system for phpBB that doesn’t use CAPTCHA.

This entry was posted on Monday, March 27th, 2006 at 1:14 pm and is filed under General, Marketing, Geekery. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to “Kings of the Wild Frontier”

  1. The Sister Says:
    March 27th, 2006 at 9:59 pm

    Are we related?

  2. site admin Says:
    March 28th, 2006 at 6:19 am

    Huh?

  3. Candace Says:
    April 20th, 2006 at 5:13 pm

    My all-time favourite comment spam:

    “I never put more than one link into a comment because I find it sets off spam filters.”

    Something happened last week and my comment spam quadrupled overnight. I watch them in my mail as they come in (approving the legitimate ones) and when there’s a couple hundred spam (like there is every few days now) I just mod them all at once. Wordpress is nice for that.