Lower’n Whale Feces

As if it weren’t bad enough to be flooding my inboxes, now they’re trying to flood my blog-space. 60-odd comments in the past couple of days, each generating an email to me. I had figured that something like this might happen, which was why I turned on comment moderation. It’s not that I particulaly mind comments. If anyone wants to disagree with anything that I’ve posted here, they are more than welcome to do so. It’s supposedly a free country with a 1st Amendment, after all, but I would expect that a comment would at least be relevant rather than a plug for perky pecker pills.

I classify spammers as being slightly lower than pond scum, but blog-spammers have hit a new low - “lower’n whale shit on the bottom of the ocean” as a Marine DI used to say. So if you’re a spammer, you’ll have to post your crap manually and I still have to OK it before it will show up. Anyone else wanting to comment is still welcome to, but making life difficult for spammers is mean making yours slightly more difficult, too. Sorry about that, but it’s either that or be flooded with ads for online pharmacies.

Best advice? Don’t let spam pay. If a merchant spams you, refuse to do business with them. They’ll get the message eventually.

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