I get a lot of junk mail in my inbox - Stuff for online casinos, "performance enhancing" drugs, the infamous Nigerian 419 scam, and other crap I have no use for. Now it's gotten worse. This site was comment-spammed by someone at IP address 213.91.217.77. That host is offline, which makes me think they either shut down or got shut down. I hope they were also disemboweled, or other wise tortured in a way that Henry III of England would have approved of.
I wish there was a way to stop these slugs, but I don''t know what would be effective. Probably nothing. The only thing I know is that I will never buy anything from someone or something that approaches me first. If I want to buy something I'll make the first move, thanks.
I was considering turning off the comments section of this blog, I don't get many comments, but those I do get I like reading and replying to, so long as they aren't trying to get me to go to an online casino. I've banned that IP from posting here, but no doubt there will be others. So I may have to shut down comments, because deleteing 417 ads for various and sundry crap that only Bubba who lives up the street would go to is not my idea of a good use for the internet.
I got hit last week. Mine came from a lot of IP addresses, all of which are now banned, but I suspect they'll just use others. :(