 I realize that there are probably as many blogs on the internet as there are the people who write them – Yes. That was deep – but I also realize that there are 10 million times more automated SPAM messages than all of the blogs in the universe. For those who have not delved into the wild world of blogging yet, that may mean nothing, but let me tell you, I have been ready, with all my patient and kindly ol’ self , to hunt the people down who generate this stuff and make them wish their mothers had raised them better. Who thought up the name of SPAM anyway? Is it because it involves totally fake messages and comments along the same lines as that canned fake ham that leaves you wondering if your neighbor’s dog is missing? And by the way, did you know that Hormel came up with that name in 1937 for Spiced ham as well as, Shoulder of Pork and ham? But what does it stand for today? I found a list that indicates it stands for a lot of things. Here are just a few:  But in all my research I found absolutely nothing that gives any indication why spam on the internet is called SPAM. It is listed as slang for Unsolicited Commercial Email but that acronym is UCE (as in uceless). And one smart aleck created “Stupid, Pointless Annoying Message” but somehow I don’t think that is it either. So, for whatever the acronym stands, it is time-consumingly frustrating.  Now to get around to why I am rambling about this. If you have noticed, when reading this blog, there has been a box at the bottom of comments that says, “Si Captcha” and is a word verification tool that filters out all of the pointless comments that arrive as SPAM. A reader who wishes to leave a comment has had to verify that he or she is actually a person and not a robotic computer because people can read the crazy letters, while computers cannot. However, in doing some reading last night, online, I came across a blog with a list of the 10 things the writer hates about other people’s blogs. Number two on the list was “Get rid of the word verification!!” I surfed some more and came across another site with suggestions for blogs. Number three on their list was “Get rid of the word verification!!!” Do you see a pattern here? So last night, I got rid of the word verification. According to these sites, I don’t need it anyway. There is supposed to be built-in spam filters on all of the blog hosting sites. This morning I got up to an exciting notification that I had 24 comments on a variety of my posts. How exciting!! Wanna hear a few of them? 1. Time to sign up for Chillout music May need that after reading these 2. It’s a shame you don’t have a donate button! I’d definitely donate to this brilliant blog. You can order a donate button from us and start getting donations immediately! They could have just gone to my contact page and sent me a check for million dollars if they cared so much! Would you donate? 3. Неплохой материал для статьи Anybody?? 4. Pretty part of content. I just stumbled upon your site and in accession capital to assert that I acquire in fact enjoyed account your blog posts. Right!! 5. Many fans of ski jumping resolve associate the dignitary with the Engelberg ski surge Of course they do!! 6. I’ll just mention the one on Viagra And so, as you can see, removing the word verification put me at the mercy of really, really bad people. However, the good news is that I have found a plugin that is now filtering all comments without my readers having to do a thing except type their wise words in a box and hit ‘submit’. So submit away. There is not excuse now. There is no word verification. I love to hear from you!! |
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Just testing to see if it works!!
That’s really funny, well kinda, okay maybe not! I’ve been lucky (so far) not to get spammed on my blog!
Have you got any secrets? The new thing that I added is not working after all!!!! Grrrr.
Spam, spam, spam, spam…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE
(:D) Best regards…
Very Funny, Hawkeye!! 🙂
I seriously thought you would be posting a recipe to use some of the spam in my food storage..haha.
I agree that word verification is annoying, but sometimes neccesary.
I love your blog!
Thanks Aunt Jenny! No. I won’t give any Spam recipes. Don’t touch the stuff!! 🙂
I don’t mind the word verification either. It IS a pain, though. It is nice to just be able to comment and let it go at that!! Love your blog!! Thanks for all the great recipes.
Thanks for reading the blog, Julie! 🙂
I have never given the word verification a second thought except when I forgot it the first couple of times. This is a teensy weensy price to pay to keep you from having to deal with what I consider to be leeches out there. I wish I could do it for my email! I, too, first thought you had come up with something delicious to do with Spam. If anyone could, it would be you!
Ha Ha, Beth. No. Not even going to go there on cooking that canned stuff! Bleh. But I appreciate what you said about the word verification because it looks like I may be going back to that. I have a whole mailbox full of smam!!!