No one is completely immune to spam these days. It comes usually  in the form of unwanted, unsolicited email. Just how do they get everyone’s addresses anyway? Then there is the more basic question of why spammers are so ill-mannered in the first place? I wish the government would crack down on it. They could easily. You can tell by the email header who is sending it. Levy some HUGE fines or throw a few people in jail and then see what the rest of them do. A lot comes from foreign countries too. They could design programs that look for and block those easily. We all have anti-virus software that catches some, and email programs have built-ins that stop more. I made some very elaborate filters that weed out all but an occasional email every now and then. And if they make it in, then the filter learns from it and they are blocked from that time on. I never send any email to anyone who I don’t know well or doesn’t ask me to send it to them.
Then there is another type of spammer I see. They attempt to add links to bogus comments on posts here. Trying to get people to click on them to sell them awful stuff usually. Again…what is with their manners? Usually there is one or two attempts every day or so. Sometimes there are five or six. Yesterday there was eighty in one day! There are some very nasty filters on the site that automatically recognizes spam and puts it in a “holding tank”. It never misses any. When I log in, I just delete it. Takes two seconds. Even when someone leaves a legitimate comment, since I’m editor, I have to OK any comment before it’s added to a post. So there is no chance anything bad will ever make it. None. That’s why the spam attempts are just funny to me. The spam I see all comes from professional spammers. They are out there full-time searching for web sites where they can leave links. They get paid for each link they leave. They’ll never make any money here.
I’d love to see congress put spam on their agenda. Maybe we all should just forward all of our spam to each of our congressmen till they get the idea? Oh, No, wait…that would be bad manners.
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