Spam Spam Spam Spam

Spam for lunch, spam for dinner, spam for tea and spam for pudding.
Spam in my inbox, spam in my outbox, spam in my deleted files and spam on my head.
Spam, spam, spam, spam and more sodding arsing bollocking piece of hairy arse spam!

I’m sick of sodding spam - not only do I get it by e-mail but I also get so much of it through my blog that I’m on the verge of calling it a day - or at the very least disabling comments - which for a blogger is much the same thing.

I already get several hundred spam messages a day on up your ego but Aksimet picks most of them up and I never need see them - but for the last two weeks or so around 100 a day have been seeping through to the normal moderation queue.

This is a pain in the arse - especialy as, until last week, I used to have the e-mail me when a comment is posted box checked. That’s off now so the e-mails have died down but the spam is still there.

It’s got to the point where checking it is a pointless excersize as it all just piles back on again.

I’d just like to apologise to anybody who was trying to post a comment for the first time (if you’ve been approved once your comment will get through fine) as it’s unlikely your comment will ever get posted.

I’m going to have one last go at getting rid of whats there (labelling it as spam) and if it still keeps coming then I’m going to disable comments for a while.

If they still come when I put comments back then I’m going to delete this blog and start again!

I do have a few ideas for blog posts but can’t be bothered as I know it will just trigger more bastard spam.

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Spam gone mad

OK so I’m currently sitting in Southampton Airport waiting for a connecting flight to Newcastle that doesn’t leave until 6.30 - it’s only about 4.30 now.

This wouldn’t be such a big deal if it wasn’t for the fact that I started my journey at 2pm and don’t land in Newcastle until 8pm - then I have a 30 minute taxi ride to my hotel.

I’ve only travelled about 200 miles but it’s going to have taken the best part of SIX hours.

That’s not what this blog post is about though. I’m sitting here at a internet terminal with what has to be the slowest network connection in the known world - looking out over the nastiest grey sky - watching some tiny little shaky planes go past - checking my e-mail.

Anyway - I open my webmail and it’s FULL, completely sodding FULL of notices from wordpress telling me of dozens of comments on my two blogs.

So I decided to head over to the Up Your Ego backend and check it out - THEY ARE ALL BLODDY SPAM COMMENTS!

I think I’m going to re-name today THE DAY OF THE BASTARD SPAM!

I mean it’s flaming stupid - I’ve got everything from the You Tube spams to the russian spams and the horrible porn spams - one was even for SPAM - a spam spam (I made that up but it would be cool!).

Why - what’s happened thats caused the spammers to go bannanas (see what I did there?)

All I can say is thank got for Aksimet and there brilliant spam catching technology - they get the bulk of my thousand or so spam comments a day - I just pick up the odd few a week but today nearly 100 got through!

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