January 25, 2004

Goodbye little spambot

I never really knew you, but I thought perhaps I had something to teach you. And that maybe you'd listen. It's my fault I know, I wanted to believe you had the capacity for change, that with a little help from me you could be more than you are. But I was wrong, wasn't I? I only asked one thing of you - to respect my blog and not twist it for dubious commercial purposes. But you couldn't. I was prepared to let it go the first time - it was early days after all, and anyone can make a mistake - I know that as well as anyone. But after that... well, I think we both know that you're simply being true to your nature. I can only blame myself for trying to apply my own set of values to your life or existence or whatever you want to call it. It was naive and arrogant of me to think I knew what was best for you.

We're just too different.

In the end I suppose we just never understood each other. And I'm sorry for that. I had such hopes in the beginning. But it's over. I hope we can both move on and find a little peace for ourselves.

I'm going to block you ip address now.

Goodbye little spambot.

Take care of yourself out there.

Thought iMark at January 25, 2004 11:09 PM | TrackBack

Comments

We need to pass these IP's around, as these bleedin' things are winding me up no end.

161 emails of crap on Friday alone :-(

Might drop JJS a note when I'm next home near the PC

Posted by: Al at January 26, 2004 01:16 PM

That's a good point. This one's ip address is 62.213.67.122 - be gentle with her though.

Posted by: imark at January 26, 2004 10:24 PM

Ahhh 62.213.67.122, yes I know her well from her random visits to our weblog, and inane advice on medical cures using Viagra.

Posted by: Al at January 27, 2004 05:29 AM

You do know that the MT backend has a 'ban by IP' feature you can use, don't you? I'd advise doing an nslookup or traceroute on the offender, though, just in case you ban what turns out to be a big proxy server, denying (say) anyone on AOL from posting comments. Mind you, that may not be such a bad idea.

I need to update us all to MT-current (we're a couple of points behind...) - are you lot being hit hard enough to warrant deploying MT-Blacklist? [shudder]

Posted by: Jonathan Sanderson at January 29, 2004 01:39 PM
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