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Just a Warning

by John Cole|  July 11, 200610:41 am| 17 Comments

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This site is getting great deal of spam (and I am not talking about PPGAZ*), so I may accidentally delete a comment that is in the moderation queue. If a comment of yours ‘disappears,’ t isn’t because I don’t love you (although that may be the case), or because I am a jack-booted fascist trying to stifle debate (if that were the case, I would turn off the comments section), but because your message got buried in 250 spam comments for free ringtones.

*That was a joke, PPGAZ.

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  1. 1.

    Ancient Purple

    July 11, 2006 at 10:43 am

    Join the club. My blog (non-political) uses WordPress and the amount of spam over the past few days has been awful. Mostly for ringtones and sneakers.

    A pain on many levels.

  2. 2.

    Pb

    July 11, 2006 at 10:44 am

    Wait, so I should stop posting about all the great FREE VIAGRA offers I’ve heard about recently? Oops, sorry…

    Incidentally John, I haven’t checked it out, but I know WordPress has a lot of plug-ins out there, so maybe you could get one that’s better at spam filtering. For example, I’ve had pretty good luck with Bayesian filtering–it doesn’t take that much training to become *very* good at filtering out the spam.

  3. 3.

    Nutcutter

    July 11, 2006 at 11:07 am

    Was there an urgent need to send funds to Namibia in the spam? Please forward to me …..

    Just kidding. And no offense taken on the joke thing. How you put up with me, I have no frigging idea.

  4. 4.

    The Other Steve

    July 11, 2006 at 11:23 am

    Speaking of spam and scams…

    Have you heard the new tax plan for Michigan proposed by the GOP candidate DeVos?

    What they’re going to do is sign up 2 other states into the new tax program. Each of those states in turns signs up 2 states. And so on and so on. Then each state will buy stamps from their parent state for 36 cents each who actually gets them for 35 cents, and sell them back to the Post Office for 37 cents.

    In volume, this scheme will amount to billions of dollars!

    in the end we all profit!

    AND NO MORE TAXES!

    It’s genius!

  5. 5.

    The Other Steve

    July 11, 2006 at 11:24 am

    A community site I maintain, we abandoned freeform posting years ago. too much viagra spam. We require logons now.

  6. 6.

    Krista

    July 11, 2006 at 11:37 am

    I WISH we got spam for just ringtones. Ours is all for online gambling or Viagra (a.k.a. poker, or poke-her.) It’s a travesty to have posts like that on such a nice upstanding God-fearing blog like Scrutator.

  7. 7.

    slide

    July 11, 2006 at 11:53 am

    John… we know you have been pre-occuppied of late but get with it.. its not PPGaz anymore its Nutcutter. Still vaguely in the male genitalia family but nonetheless he prefers nutcutter.

    btw.. I know where you can get this great free ringtone…

  8. 8.

    Punchy

    July 11, 2006 at 11:55 am

    I am a jack-booted fascist trying to stifle debate

    Oh my God…Darrell is now posting threads under Mr. Cole’s name….

  9. 9.

    demimondian

    July 11, 2006 at 11:55 am

    Krista, you might want to discuss this with your therapist. I’m thinking that your fixation on phallic imagery (Viagra, Scrutator — pronouced “Screw-tator” — as “up-standing blog”, etc.) might warrant some talking out.

  10. 10.

    Krista

    July 11, 2006 at 12:01 pm

    I didn’t name the blog. I waive all responsibility in regards to that.

  11. 11.

    Jack Roy

    July 11, 2006 at 12:48 pm

    But what do I do if I have a legitimate product that offers ROCK HARD ERECTIONS!!!!1! ?

  12. 12.

    Nutcutter

    July 11, 2006 at 1:26 pm

    But what do I do if I have a legitimate product that offers ROCK HARD ERECTIONS

    Use it?

  13. 13.

    srv

    July 11, 2006 at 3:46 pm

    Use it?

    Jeff could give it to his minions and they could gang slap him .

  14. 14.

    ImJohnGalt

    July 11, 2006 at 3:47 pm

    Ours is all for online gambling or Viagra (a.k.a. poker, or poke-her.) It’s a travesty to have posts like that on such a nice upstanding God-fearing blog like Scrutator.

    Krista? Scrutator? Our blog? Wha? [rubbing eyes] Whaaa?

  15. 15.

    ImJohnGalt

    July 11, 2006 at 3:53 pm

    Nevermind.

  16. 16.

    tzs

    July 11, 2006 at 7:22 pm

    Ummm…my spam (what gets through) seems to consist of OTC energy stock pushers, Japanese invitations to trashy talk websites, and pleadings from Chinese small high-tech companies to please buy their products. (We’ve got a pretty good filter.)

    And every now and then the old Nigerian scam. I loved the one I got about getting money out of Iraq. Scams gotta keep up with the news…

  17. 17.

    Krista

    July 11, 2006 at 7:53 pm

    ImJohnGalt – you missed the big unveiling, huh?

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