Comments on: The Battle Continues http://www.aelon.net/2004/11/the-battle-continues/ Random babblings from a few digitally inclined people Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:23:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Cyrris http://www.aelon.net/2004/11/the-battle-continues/#comment-335 Sun, 28 Nov 2004 04:07:55 +0000 http://www.aelon.net/2004/11/the-battle-continues/#comment-335 Well, yeah, my spam experience is really mostly since I started Aelon. As far as e-mail goes, my @aelon.net addresses received (and still receive) a lot of spam, which thankfully I have a good filter for. I removed all the mailto: links, and it's helped, but there are still bots out there that are good at guessing them. 'aelon[at]aelon.net' is the default mail address that comes with the domain, and I've <i>never</i> had it listed on any webpage ever, but e-mail bots even go so far as to guess at domain name e-mails to spam them. The most annoying is actually comment spam, as it directly gets in the way of conversations on blogs. Some poor blogs I've seen have had an entry with one or two proper comments, following by a wave of 2 dozen spam posts. It's outrageous, and very time consuming to clean up. In all cases, be it comment spam, e-mail spam, and referrer spam, it's a waste of <i>my</i> resources in time, bandwidth and space. Bandwidth and space aren't free, and time is better spent on something else - like watching more Seinfeld episodes. Spammers have no right to sap the resources of so many people without their permission. But they do, and that's why they're scum. Well, yeah, my spam experience is really mostly since I started Aelon. As far as e-mail goes, my @aelon.net addresses received (and still receive) a lot of spam, which thankfully I have a good filter for. I removed all the mailto: links, and it’s helped, but there are still bots out there that are good at guessing them. ‘aelon[at]aelon.net’ is the default mail address that comes with the domain, and I’ve never had it listed on any webpage ever, but e-mail bots even go so far as to guess at domain name e-mails to spam them.

The most annoying is actually comment spam, as it directly gets in the way of conversations on blogs. Some poor blogs I’ve seen have had an entry with one or two proper comments, following by a wave of 2 dozen spam posts. It’s outrageous, and very time consuming to clean up.

In all cases, be it comment spam, e-mail spam, and referrer spam, it’s a waste of my resources in time, bandwidth and space. Bandwidth and space aren’t free, and time is better spent on something else - like watching more Seinfeld episodes.

Spammers have no right to sap the resources of so many people without their permission. But they do, and that’s why they’re scum.

]]> by: Cereal Samurai http://www.aelon.net/2004/11/the-battle-continues/#comment-334 Sun, 28 Nov 2004 02:55:17 +0000 http://www.aelon.net/2004/11/the-battle-continues/#comment-334 Okay, serious comment, then... I went to that page you linked to, and it made sense what they were trying to do, but near the end they said "The people who would spam someone else's web site to promote their own are scum," I mean come on! Scum? I don't know why you people get so angry about this sort of thing, crying out for the death penalty or grimacing at the prospect of being able to stab the perpetraters. Granted, I don't run a website, so I can't appreciate the annoyance to its fullest... but it's just relatively clever people using obvious loopholes to their advantage. If the solution is so easy, people should implement it! You can't expect advertisers to ignore opportunity. Same goes with people that bitch about SPAM in their e-mail. They blame third-party sites and sneaky sneakers for their influx of SPAM, but the only time it plagued me was with my first e-mail account, when I signed up to the Hotmail directory, and every e-newsletter under the sun. With my next, I ditched the newsletters and directory listing, and surprise surprise, I could surf freely and join trusted sites without any adverts reaching me. Okay, serious comment, then… I went to that page you linked to, and it made sense what they were trying to do, but near the end they said “The people who would spam someone else’s web site to promote their own are scum,” I mean come on! Scum? I don’t know why you people get so angry about this sort of thing, crying out for the death penalty or grimacing at the prospect of being able to stab the perpetraters.

Granted, I don’t run a website, so I can’t appreciate the annoyance to its fullest… but it’s just relatively clever people using obvious loopholes to their advantage. If the solution is so easy, people should implement it! You can’t expect advertisers to ignore opportunity.

Same goes with people that bitch about SPAM in their e-mail. They blame third-party sites and sneaky sneakers for their influx of SPAM, but the only time it plagued me was with my first e-mail account, when I signed up to the Hotmail directory, and every e-newsletter under the sun. With my next, I ditched the newsletters and directory listing, and surprise surprise, I could surf freely and join trusted sites without any adverts reaching me.

]]> by: Holliday http://www.aelon.net/2004/11/the-battle-continues/#comment-331 Sat, 27 Nov 2004 05:18:04 +0000 http://www.aelon.net/2004/11/the-battle-continues/#comment-331 Ha! Apparently you've never heard of the internet gun! Hooray for Aelon being back up. As I launched my web browser 5 seconds ago I was praying to see that lovely logo once more. Ha! Apparently you’ve never heard of the internet gun!

Hooray for Aelon being back up. As I launched my web browser 5 seconds ago I was praying to see that lovely logo once more.

]]> by: JohnDoe http://www.aelon.net/2004/11/the-battle-continues/#comment-330 Sat, 27 Nov 2004 00:43:26 +0000 http://www.aelon.net/2004/11/the-battle-continues/#comment-330 The only way to succesfully eradicate spam will be to go to spammers, and STAB THEM IN THEIR FACE. ofcourse, sadly enough, this will never happen :( The only way to succesfully eradicate spam will be to go to spammers, and STAB THEM IN THEIR FACE.

ofcourse, sadly enough, this will never happen :(

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