Behind the scenes here in blogland, I’m dealing with what has to be the second most annoying aspect of our ‘information superhighway,’ — comment spam.

I know you can’t see it out there, but on a daily basis, us bloggers, who like the interplay and back and forth of posting and reading folks’ comments — have to deal with people who want to sell you illegal drugs, get you gambling in on-line casinos, and other schemes.

They’re goal — to attach them selves to content-rich blogs in hopes that they will increase their Google page rank and get more eyes in front of their projects.

In order to combat these folks, there are a number of scripts that we run behind the scenes to combat them.

I think it may be a losing war. I’ve all but eliminated spam from my mail box with a host of sophisticated filters. Additionally, I’ve all buy stemmed the tide against spyware that attaches to our computers and forces pop ups, weird home pages and random search bars. But comment spam is eluding me. So for now, no comments will be accepted on the blog until I can stem the tide of the hundreds of spam comments I receive an hour.

I love the world wide web, but I can’t fullyl utilize it until I can get ahead of the spam curve again.

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