From Salted Caramel, come these questions about our blogs and how we feel about them. I wouldn’t want to say we are a bit obsessive about them, but when the shoe fits, run for the hills. Blogging Insights # 29… Read More ›
Spam
SPAM! – Marilyn Armstrong
For a long time, I got two spam messages for every real hit on my site. I was getting almost a thousand spam messages on heavy days. WordPress finally fixed the bug, but it was overwhelming for a while. Was… Read More ›
ONE MORE TIME: DOOM DESTRUCTION AND THE DNC – By Tom Curley
I originally wrote this on election day 2017. It reminded me of a post I wrote a while back that sadly is still as current as it was back then. And it will be current next year too. And the… Read More ›
SIX THOUSAND SPAM MESSAGES IN AN HOUR – Marilyn Armstrong
Although this hasn’t affected WordPress, my email has been walloped by more than six thousand spam messages in the last hour. About 5,000 were caught by the Google’s spam catcher. I took care of the rest AND changed my password…. Read More ›
DOOM DESTRUCTION AND THE DNC. AGAIN! – BY TOM CURLEY
I wrote this on election day 2017. It reminded me of a post I wrote a while back that sadly is still as current as it was back then. And it will be current next year too. And the year… Read More ›
A WHOLE LOT OF SPAM
Akismet, WordPress’s virus scanner-remover hasn’t been doing as good a job lately as it used to. It used to catch all the spam for this site. They did such a good job I didn’t even worry about it. These days, a… Read More ›
THE JINGLE JANGLE TROLLING OF THE BELLS
THE JINGLE JANGLE TROLLING OF THE BELLS One of the reasons I tend to avoid some subjects is not that I’m afraid of them. It’s not that I don’t have enough data. It’s just that some of these topics attract… Read More ›
DOOM, DESTRUCTION AND THE DNC – BY TOM CURLEY
I don’t know about anybody else but I usually spend about five minutes every day deleting the junk email from my account. I’ve had an AOL account from literally when they first started. I briefly worked for them and got… Read More ›
IT’S OBVIOUS … ISN’T IT?
It ought to be obvious. If you deluge potential customers or contributors with email, whether imploring them for donations or reminding them of your products, eventually they will run away. Unsubscribe. Detach. The first time this happened, I had made the near-fatal… Read More ›
A RARE MOMENT OF CIVILITY IN THE SPAMALOT UNIVERSE
We all get a lot of junk email. I suppose I should be grateful that I don’t still get the pounds of paper I used to get. I felt guilty throwing away all that stuff … but I can delete… Read More ›
ESCAPE FROM SPAMALOT
Back in the early 1990s, I donated $10 to a women’s group fighting to keep abortion legal and unencumbered. This $10 put me on the “potential donor” list of every single political organization from left to right. It was before the… Read More ›
WHAT’S THAT NOISE?
I heard it, but it didn’t make any sense. Noise. Music. Shrill, loud music. Mozart. What does Mozart have against me? I never did anything to him … Oh. It’s the telephone. Someone — maybe something — is calling. As… Read More ›
