{"id":2446,"date":"2004-11-23T09:11:22","date_gmt":"2004-11-23T17:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/11\/23\/2446.html"},"modified":"2004-11-23T09:11:22","modified_gmt":"2004-11-23T17:11:22","slug":"thats-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/11\/23\/thats-service\/","title":{"rendered":"That’s service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Some bozo has been spamming my journal's comments section (mostly for older entries) with comments like:<\/p>\n

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This is a very influential speculative novel of [URL elided by Jed]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The URL was apparently for a company selling Mac OS X drivers for scanners. (Scanners of the sort that work with modern computers, not the sort that live in vain<\/a>. Though I do wonder if Martel and the other scanners in that story ever had to deal with the heartbreak of driver upgrades.) This morning, after deleting a couple of these spam comments, it occurred to me that perhaps the person's web hosting company wouldn't be happy about the spamming. I checked, and sure enough flywebs.com has terms of service that prohibit spamming. So I dropped them a polite note at 8:29 a.m. letting them know about the situation. I didn't expect to hear back from them at all.<\/p>\n

But at 8:42 a.m., I received a note from them letting me know that they'd removed the account. And I checked, and yup, the web page is gone.<\/p>\n

In an ideal world, I suppose it would be nicer to talk with the spammer and convince them, through logic and empathy, that spamming isn't a good idea. And I might be a little concerned about an ISP removing accounts solely on the basis of a single email from a random stranger, with no supporting evidence. (Though for all I know, mine was the twentieth complaint of the day about this person.)<\/p>\n

Still, I can't help being pleased with the alacrity with which the ISP dealt with the issue.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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