For years, I have managed the BloggersOverForty webring on WebRing.com...
I realized today, as I was trying to catch up my inbox, that it had been quite a while since I had received a new request to join the ring, so I logged on to see what was going on.
Long story short, after doing some digging, I realized that "my" ring had been put up for adoption because I had not been responding to new requests. I had not been responding to new requests because, I realized after more digging, that I had not been receiving notifications in my inbox. After more digging, I realized that the reason that I had not been receiving notifications was that because a number of months ago, when I was getting deluged with spam for my blogdom.org domain, I had severely restricted the number of valid email addresses for that domain, and had forgotten to include the email address for managing the webring.
So, thanks to $@!&$@! spammers, not only do I have to spend at least an hour a week removing comment and trackback spam from the blog, but I lost the ability to manage the ring that I created when I first started blogging.
SPAMMERS SUCK!
I pride myself on being tolerant and loving, but as far as I am concerned, it would be fine with me if all spammers just dropped dead, after a prolonged period of intense suffering.
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Posted by David at March 19, 2006 07:23 PM