Spam

I know how irritating it is to be spammed.  I went through many of my old blogs and saw the same spam, spammed in retro blogs. If that makes sense.

Anyway, what I wanted to say is ...... spam away if gets our fearless leader (and the handsome penguin) back to our home office.

We have missed him.  As much as I enjoy listing to Ciaran carring on and on and on until I find something ELSE for him to think about :P, It was a nice surprise to hear from NoFu again.

You have been missed.

Jez

I just wanted to write a brief explanation on the spam and how it is being handled. First, I must issue my own apology to everyone. It's my fault that things got so far out of hand and I won't offer any excuse other than I've been busy. But everyone's busy, so that's not an excuse. And to make it worse, I didn't plan for folks to be able to handle spammergencies without me around.

Having read a few thousand comments this afternoon/evening and having gotten a fair amount of spam off the site (we're sending it to Prokofy Neva; I hear she's a big fan), I read a few comments on the spam itself. One being - and surprising me - that the Arabic comment spam was showing up in the RSS feeds. And that meant that someone had been using the RSS feed for entries that they were interested in - the first that I'd heard of it. 

Dear readers, we've recently been experiencing spam problems here. We sought out Obi-Wan-Kenobi but he was busy, so we sought out our favourite Penguin.

Alas due to circumstances beyond our control, our Penguin was captured, tied up in an icy castle and held captive by forces that made Darth Vader look like a nursery school problem. However us fearless Y2P bloggers managed to use our powers of wisdom and reasoning (henceforth I wasn't involved) to release him from the clutches of evil and now he's added a little bit of power to our arsenal.

Does this mean the spam problems are over? Hell no, they won't go, however it does mean that us fearless bloggers and seekers of truth and justice should be able to deal with them quicker and try to minimise the problems.

We thank you for your understanding.