Stupid Spammers
Monday, August 4th, 2008I knew that it was only a matter of time; but whoever writes the spam robots had finally adapted to the anti-spam measures that I was using on the shoutbox. The funny thing is that I don’t allow URLs in shouts so there’s really no purpose. That’s the problem with spam. It causes aggravation for everyone even when the spammers are getting nothing out of it.
I know that there are online services that block spam; but I’ve never been comfortable sending comments and shouts that people have left for us off to a “big computer in the sky” to be checked. Maybe they delete them after they’ve been analyzed; but they’ve got to make a profit somehow so they must be doing something with all of the data they collect.
This site doesn’t have a written privacy policy; but, if it did, it would be simple. We don’t share information what we have with anyone. We don’t post the text of any emails that we receive (even if they are interesting). And we don’t reveal IP addresses. We do this for fun and would like for people to respect our privacy and anonymity. So we do our best to respect theirs.

