I have gotten my first piece of automated commentary promoting products I’ve no interest in. The joys of ownership are welling up in me.
*sigh* I suppose I’d best start looking into anti-SPAM devices….
Meanwhile, in a fit of cruelty, I went to an even dozen adult websites and registered comments with the SPAM email’s replyto address and web page as the author. If we’re lucky, the adult sites will combat the trash sites and kill one another off.
Hey, a man is only as good as his dreams.
Crossposted from Epinepherine & Sophistry
Unfortunately, battling SPAM in that way is not always effective.
As a website owner, you may start seeing Returned Mail error messages on things you never sent.
You see, some Spammers will lift an email address from an innocent site to use as the Reply-to address. So you might eventually find that someone is using [fillintheblank] (at) rscottshanksjr dot com as a reply-to on the SPAM they are sending.
Sorry to be the harbinger of ill news.
Actually, I don’t expect that I’ll do any good; I just feel that doing something however small and ineffectual, has a ritual value that benefits the practitioner.