Well, with apologies to the Kinks and songwriter Ray Davies, no, I wasn't.
I discovered last night that the blog had been hit by over 700 spam messages in the comments section. What to do...so I began deleting them.
Manually. One at a time. And, since I'm in a hotel room with high-speed internet access, at dial-up speed. I got rid of a few hundred and then went to bed.
Awoke late this morning (taking Sunday off, yay...) and logged on, only to find that I'd been hit again, as I slept. So I began slogging through it all again. Got rid of all of it, and decided that all posts over thirty days old would be closed to comments, so I did that, too.
It's worth the trouble: The Anger of Compassion is my blog and has my name on it, so I want it to look good and to provide pleasure to those reading it. Those reading it include beautiful, desirable women, so I have motivation there. But I was careful, too: I don't think I deleted any legitimate comments. But if your name is Texas Holdem or Free Online Casino (or your twin's name, Best Online Casino) or Tramadol or Cheap Viagra, well, you're gone.
Oh, and Paris Hilton, I deleted your comment, too.
Posted by Craig Ceely at September 19, 2004 03:20 PM