January 31, 2004
Fuck The Internet
Just discovered that a comment-spam attack has left a single comment in every single one of this blog's posts. In the past, comment-spam has been relatively easy to handle: delete the 4 or 5 offending comments, ban the IP address, repeat roughly once per month.
This time, it's much worse (just glad I'm not very prolific). Have deleted about a third of the offending comments so far, and will get back on it soon. In the meantime, apologies, and thanks for your patience.
The blogger must hasten to add that the Internet -- developed in the public sector, therefore rightfully belonging to the public -- didn't have to be a medium into which commercialisation would sink its disgracegful and corrosive teeth. (But then, neither did radio or teevee....)
Posted by Eddie Tews at January 31, 2004 01:02 AM
Comments
hey dude.. you gotta force registration for your comments.. leaving it open to the wild like this is suicide... just make people register (it can be a very easy registration --and you should include a "copy the code from the image" thing) and your spam will disappear -- Posted by: andy christianson on July 24, 2005 09:50 AM
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