I had 37 spam comments today, 33 of which were automobile related. This isn’t even a blog about cars, so it seems their targetting (if any) is way way off.

In an earlier spam comment, the “person” wrote something along the lines of “Nice blog. I guess you’ll check out mine.” I guess not, because I can tell by the URL that it’s most likely a spam site so I’m not going to bother looking. I’ll just delete your comment and move on.

Then, another earlier spam comment was 133 lines of links for the little blue pill. Yeah, my blog’s not about that either.

Then, one just the other day was bilingual spam (English and Spanish) for, ahem, adult entertainment sites.

The one that tops all was a spam comment with 312 links, all to the same URL, but to different pages, most of which had nothing to do with the URL. A keyword stuffing attempt of some sort, no doubt.

All this spam wastes time and energy. Even with spam filters on eMail, too much junk gets through. Meanwhile, the FTC is worried about cookies–something which can easily be blocked if I don’t want them on my system.

Not that government efforts have done anything to reduce spam, and is unlikely to do so, aside from a few publicity stunts to convince the public otherwise. So, now they are going to fight the cookie menace. Geez. This is how tax dollars get wasted in this country.

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