Thoughts 20 Dec 2006 03:27 pm
Blog Spam
I have been receiving a minimum of 7 instances of blog spam from this company, http://hometown.aol.com/jjjinsurance, every day. Today I checked on it and was greeted with the message:
A mutual agreement has been reached between the owner of this site and the company.
Site has been removed.
My opinion of AOL has gone up, not enough to ever use their product, but up none the less.
Other blogs I know of, receive porn and viagra spam, at the rate of 20 or so a day, this is without counting e-mail spam. These are small sites, getting less that 100 hits a day, can you imagine the mess big sites must have. I’m lucky, the spam I receive is usually less than 20 a day on this site and rarely more than 20 per day, per mailbox on the sites I manage.
An article I read said, that a study showed that email spam increases this time of year.
This must have been done under a government grant, I mean who, in their right mind, would expect any different results.
The hard copy junk mail appears in our mailboxes as if by magic, it must be the trash fairies, because no mere letter carrier, could possibly lift that much scrap paper, and if I printed and trashed all the spam I get, the garbage company would make me get a commercial dumpster.
Can you imagine the combined weight of all those unrequested catalogues and fliers, from companys you’ve never heard of, that have appeared at your front door, just this year.
The primary difference between spam and junk mail, is the fact that, in spite of it’s protests to the contrary, the post office makes money on junk mail.
You don’t hear much noise about controlling the stuff that kills trees and clogs landfill, and just as soon as a large entity starts to make money on spam, you won’t hear anything more about stopping that either.
Of course spammers are getting something for almost nothing at the moment, and as soon as they have to pay to spam, most of them will quit.