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I can't believe it. I just got spammed on this blog. A kind of spam I didn't know existed, but that has obviously been around for some time, based on the features you find on blog engines config tools.

Anyway, Spam is everywhere: I receive spam email of course, as anyone does, but now we also have spam telephone calls (including political), serving a recorded message to you or your answering machine, spam blog comments, spam pop-up windows when browsing the web (blocking pop-up windows is the easy way out though), ...

The point is, I can't understand the motivation of these people. First I don't read their shit, and second, the subliminal snapshot I get of the product logo their represent will make me hate it forever. I am sure Spam has the opposite effect of what it's intended to do on a large fraction of the population: Because it's Spam, people will not buy it.

Freaking corporations.

So, all this to say that I have had to turn on some filtering on this blog. You'll have to enter your typekey to comment here, or wait that I clear the comment next time I log in.

Update: I just received 4 spam comments in the last 15mn. I have to turn off unregistered user comments for now, I don't want to have to go through 100 junk comments to filter out everyday.

Update2: Some relevant info about blog spam can be found here.

Update 3: Yeehaa! Just got ahold of this. There's some hope now.