The SS Fun is FREE FROM SPAM!
Bloggers, especially those who use the publishing platform I use, have been under a shock & awe-like assault of spam since late summer. You can read about it here and many other places. It is because of this that leaving comments is temporarily suspended. Once Moveable Type and Six Apart figure out how to deal with the problem (and they say that will be soon) we’ll once again allow comments — perhaps even without registration.
What’s wild is that spammers are still leaving unregistered messages (which they should know won’t actually be published on the Web, but will, alas, take up some of MY server space!) and they’re leaving them on cached links . . .links you can’t even get to by clicking! Yet it persists — about 6/hour. . .a manageable amount to delete each morning.
Why are they doing it? Not because they think you will look under my comments section, see a link for Texas Holdem and click — it is all about placement in Google’s directory. Google lists the best Texas Holdem site based on how many links are pointing to it. . . even if they are obviously bogus links spat out my a spambot.
Eventually there will be regulation, but for now it is still a battle — the Internet can and should be a resource for people to find and share information. . . and, yes, to shop, but to be free from harrasment! Vive la Resistance!
