Travel
After having to delete more than 75 spam comments yesterday, and waking up this morning to 19 more in my mailbox, I've decided to not accept anonymous comments. I regret the inconvenience this may cause the readers of this blog, but I don't know what else to do about it. I'm hoping to open it up again within a few days so that anyone can comment, but I worry that the same thing will happen again. Each and every spam comment was close to being the same - advertising one type of pill or another, and they looked like they could have been from the same sender.
For every comment I get, an email comes to my aol mailbox. I marked all these comments as spam, and I don't know why aol continued to send more to my inbox. Blogger catches them but I eventually have to go in and delete them. I've about had it with this crap.
Sorry about this, and I hope you will understand that I know of no other way to handle it.
- Sherman Goes For A Drive!
And, we've made some blog changes. Most of you won't notice, but we've removed the ability for someone to comment as "anonymous". We were getting a lot of advertising comments, and while the spam filter blocked most of them, they...
- Catching Up
My trip is finally catching up with me and I am really tired. This morning I cleaned up the kitchen and then made a big pot of minestrone-style vegetable soup, but this afternoon I sat down with a glass of wine to look at a magazine and fell asleep...
- Who Can Figure?
I have about one week left until my cable tv is cancelled, and lo and behold I again have the Science Channel. DirecTV removed it from my service, then told me it was in another package and I would have to pay additional to get it. So I get...
- Saturday Morning
Thanks to readers who have commented on my problems with spam. My blog currently allows anyone to comment, and I can deal with a couple of spams a day. You may remember a few months back I received close to 100 spams in about two days. ...
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At about 3:30 this afternoon if felt warm enough to shed my flannel pj's and don shorts and a t-shirt. It is in the upper 70's but still feels cool in the house. Every now and then I feel guilty for doing nothing today but reading...
Travel
Temporary halt to anonymous comments
After having to delete more than 75 spam comments yesterday, and waking up this morning to 19 more in my mailbox, I've decided to not accept anonymous comments. I regret the inconvenience this may cause the readers of this blog, but I don't know what else to do about it. I'm hoping to open it up again within a few days so that anyone can comment, but I worry that the same thing will happen again. Each and every spam comment was close to being the same - advertising one type of pill or another, and they looked like they could have been from the same sender.
For every comment I get, an email comes to my aol mailbox. I marked all these comments as spam, and I don't know why aol continued to send more to my inbox. Blogger catches them but I eventually have to go in and delete them. I've about had it with this crap.
Sorry about this, and I hope you will understand that I know of no other way to handle it.
- Sherman Goes For A Drive!
And, we've made some blog changes. Most of you won't notice, but we've removed the ability for someone to comment as "anonymous". We were getting a lot of advertising comments, and while the spam filter blocked most of them, they...
- Catching Up
My trip is finally catching up with me and I am really tired. This morning I cleaned up the kitchen and then made a big pot of minestrone-style vegetable soup, but this afternoon I sat down with a glass of wine to look at a magazine and fell asleep...
- Who Can Figure?
I have about one week left until my cable tv is cancelled, and lo and behold I again have the Science Channel. DirecTV removed it from my service, then told me it was in another package and I would have to pay additional to get it. So I get...
- Saturday Morning
Thanks to readers who have commented on my problems with spam. My blog currently allows anyone to comment, and I can deal with a couple of spams a day. You may remember a few months back I received close to 100 spams in about two days. ...
-
At about 3:30 this afternoon if felt warm enough to shed my flannel pj's and don shorts and a t-shirt. It is in the upper 70's but still feels cool in the house. Every now and then I feel guilty for doing nothing today but reading...