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Meta comment-spam

Andrew — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:14:41 +0000

From today’s spam filter, a comment which amused me deeply:

Howdy, i read your blog occasionally and i own a similar one and i was just wondering if you get a lot of spam comments? If so how do you prevent it, any plugin or anything you can advise? I get so much lately it’s driving me mad so any assistance is very much appreciated.

I suppose the best way to disguise comment-spam is to have the boilerplate text be complaining about it…

Some further points

Iona — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:06:07 +0000

1. I usually write about my life, to excruciating length, elsewhere, and have been doing so with assiduous regularity for nearly nine years, ye gods;

2. Not everyone is interested in what I had for breakfast;

3. (although some people are);

4. And occasionally I post things that of are interest to people who are not a) me and b) that gang of geeks I was at university with;

5. So I am experimenting with “proper” blogging, and also with incorporating the book reviews I currently only post to LibraryThing;

6. And, therefore:

7. Hello, world!

Four points

Andrew — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:16:46 +0000

Hello, world! (it’s obligatory)

Installing wordpress is surprisingly easy
Remembering how chmod works is not
Now I actually need to stop procrastinating and Write Things, Interesting Things
…which means it’s time for some coffee.