There are some things I just do not get.  One of them is spam.  Set up a website and the sheer amount of different types of spam you get will take a rather abrupt rise.  referrer spam, trackback spam, email spam.  It reaches ridiculous lengths.  I was getting 500 odd referrer spam a day.  It was becoming an almost daily routine, check the referrer list and mass add the referrers IP’s to the blacklist then mass delete.

I seem to be having a lull in referrer spam at the moment.  I have no delusion that it will last I am sure the little s**ts will find new computers to use and they will start up once more.

Then the other day I noticed a steep rise in the number of trackbacks.  After looking at them I realised that they were not genuine trackbacks but similar to the referrer spam.  Yet another thing to check and delete.  Sigh.

Then of course there is the email spam which I am sure any of you with an email address has encountered at some point.  Still 100’s of spam emails to wad through and delete becomes a little much after a while so the whole mass blacklisting and mass deleting has happened.

So if you have sent an email, I hasten to add a legitimate one, that I have not answered I do apologise.

If you are one of those leaches who participate in spaming, what can I say that is not impolite?  Not much.  Go away and find someone else to annoy.  No I do not want to buy pills from you, no I do not want to visit your sick porn site, no I am not going to send you my banking details so you can transfer money from an approved bank loan that I did not apply for…Not that I think this would work on the type of individual who would participate in spaming. 

For those of you about to set up your own website get ready for an obscene amount of spam in various formats to enter your life.

Sorry.  End rant.