Redneck Bar & Grill

Spam is many things to many people.There are many knockoff versions of Spam, such as Klick, Prem,  and Splack. While Spam is made from wholesome ingredients, some of the others might be a  tasty (?) concoction made up of lips, beaks and a$$holes, then canned and sold to unsuspecting connoisseurs as food. Hey, you are what you eat, and in this case you might turn out to be lips, beaks and a$$holes.
And then there is electronic spam.
Last Weekend, our blog was violated. That’s right, we were spam raped.
It all seems like a strange dream. One minute we were footloose and carefree, unsullied, pristine. Then, before I knew it, we were attacked. I felt dirty and used. Like the men’s room at a 24 hr gas station next to a busy truck stop, where the attendant only cleans once a week whether it needs it or not.
Two comments had been left on my post, Crowning the Comment King (or Queen). I have the system set up to notify me of new comments via email. I didn’t check my email until Sunday afternoon, so the comments were up for a little while. Chalk full of links to acne medication and erectile disfunction cures, and loaded with keywords, these comments didn’t even have a tag line or anything. Just links. Of course, you don’t expect the rapist to say hello and hold the door open for you, but a nod of the head would have been nice.
I have seen Wordpress spam protection in action, when a legitimate comment of mine was rejected for the word ‘nice‘, ‘cool‘, etc. I always wondered who out there was spamming these sites. Now I know.
I deleted the offending material, after flagging it with Typepad as spam. Then, running through my options, I realized I don’t have very many. We aren’t running Wordpress, so no spam filter. With Typepad, I can turn on comment moderation, or turn comments off (unacceptable). Other than the robot detecting ‘enter the word from the picture’ thing, I don’t see any other options.
With the thousands of comments we get per day, comment moderation is going to be consuming. Ernie and I will have to work late into the night, going over each message personally. Some sacrifices just have to be made, when you have a world famous, ultra ‘cool‘, ‘nice‘ blog like Blue Beaver Beer.
Other options: Become a spam fighting vigilante? Too risky, and I don’t own a gun.
Take political action? I don’t know if an anti-spam platform will get me into any office anytime soon.
I guess I could go public and expose the spammer as the scum he or she is.
The spam came from http://www.games2web.com/ and http://jenkins.today.com/, under the user names Raga and Nana. Now I ask you, whose granny is spamming me? I doubt these are the perp’s real names!
In conclusion, spam is bad for you. If you are going to ingest something fattening, it might as well be Blue Beaver Beer. Contains no lips, beaks or a$$holes.

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