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Last night and all of this morning I have been spam bombed. It is all from one guy and it is one 'not approved' comment to every single one of the just-shy-of-one-thousand posts I have made since moving to Movable Type. Their replacement for MT Blacklist just cannot handle a spammer who changes his IP for every post. So even though they are not approved, I still have to go through the Comments list and delete them, and they fill up my email box. What do i do? Well, I could go through the process of changing my comments.cgi into something obfuscational but I imagine spam software writers are more intelligent than that. The question is this. WHY? Why are they spamming me? I am not popular, not even popular enough (or young enough) to get a free cell phone. They will not generate any hits from my site and since they are sooooo smart as to by pass most security features installed in most blogging software, why don't they use the common sense those smarts should have installed? Why don't they place that energy elsewhere as no one really can be making money from spam, can they? I still believe the only people making money are the fuckers who market the idea that spam can make you money. Look at the basic idea of sending someone an email masquerading as something benign and then expecting someone to be coaxed into buying something from the company that just lied to them. Or leaving a complimentary comment in someone's blog and then asking them to buy your penis enlarger. Do they companies who's products are being shilled think this will build company & product interest? We really have to educate businesses more. And we should pay programmers & developers as much money to combat spam as the guys who write the spam agents must get paid to send us shit. August 20 06

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