Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Comments?

You may wonder why the "Comments" feature is not active on this "blog." The reason is this: when I published this blog online for the first time, Comments were indeed active and available. Tragically, the very first "comment" received on a topic was -- Spam. Comments were turned off immediately.

There will be no responses permitted on this weblog -- until the management of Blogger/Blogspot is able to provide robust controls to assure that ONLY those wishing to compose a sensible comment on the topic, with no irrelevant commercial motive, are permitted to post. Spam is not even advertising. It is grafitti. It is vandalism. It is harrassment. It is litter along the scenic berms of the Information Superhighway, discarded by the same kind of slobs and losers who trash your neighborhood in real life.

4 comments:

CarriƧo said...

That´s a real problem!!
I used to receive lots of spam comments. Now, my provider have increased a confirmation code, and they've finished. I think that's a good idea.

Greetings from Portugal
PS - Sorry about the English! :)

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Jo Anna Guerra said...

Hi, although I firmly disagree with many of your generalizations, I would like the opportunity to refute them one by one. Please go to your settings tab, then choose Comments, then make it so that only registered users may comment AND turn on the word verification feature. This will help (although not completely alleviate) the problem.

PointShooter said...

jo anna --

I don't generalize. After having heard all the usual and unusual arguments on a topic, and having educated myself in the facts of the matter, I offer my informed conclusions. I am also plenty old enough to have been very well enlightened by long, hard experience, and burned by any misassumptions I have tried to hold onto.

I wouldn't worry about my being wrong so much as how your worldview will account for my being right.