Tag: spam

  • Why do people spam blogs?

    When I first started my blog, I had to turn the comments off, as I was inundated with spam. I tried having readers register, but no one could be bothered, so I forgot all about reader interaction. Then came Akismet, a brilliant spam fighting plug-in that comes built into wordpress. It catches pretty well everything,…

  • Digilante – I’ve been saved by the Dark Knight of the Internet!

    There are good guys out there! In my post yesterday about This Website Business, I mentioned how much work was involved in making sure that a registration system was secure and how I thought one of those who had registered was a bit suspicious. Well, last night I received a very strange email. It came from…