I finally caved in and enabled the Akismet web service to stop comment spam. I was getting between 250-300+ comments per day, all of them spam. So far, it seems to work well… and whoa! what a relief!
Meanwhile, I’m spending the day at home, doing some errands and pampering my wife, who caught the flu. Tomorrow will be a whole different day, though… Friday, the dreaded Church Bulletin Day. Carpe diem!
Like you, I often fight the new, default “norm” for the Net. I often miss the Net as I knew it long ago. Perhaps in the future, there will be more aggressive tools for fighting not just spam, but spammers.
That’s right namesake; spammers are a sure test of the virtue of Christian charity. Sigh…