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What the F?
Someone posted a comment to my posting on weird Ebay folks consisting of all sorts of “penis enlargement” keywords.

Now spammers are taking advantage of the ability to post comments to people’s blogs to send spam.

Someone posted the following as a comment to “Ebay people are strange, redux.” - Note the “if this is inappropriate” text at the bottom of the link. NO, it is NOT ok to post your completely NOT relevant spam to my blog, then make it my responsibility to get rid of it. (I did, but only because I have no choice. This theft of resources goes FAR beyond email spamming. When spamming by email, you’re stealing my server quota (if any), and my cost to run my server and/or my cost for bandwidth to download said spam. With blog spamming, you’re doing all of the above, and forcing me to publish your spam for you, potentially generating more unwanted traffic, for which I must pay.)
Someone else just posted another comment to the same blog entry containing the whoppingly brilliant content of (and this is an exact quote): “Hey”.
Only a first name given, with a bogus email address. Of course, I have to thank them in a way. When they posted their comment on this old blog entry, I got an email notifying me. It was only then that I looked at the comments for that entry (thinking perhaps the email had gotten truncated and perhaps “Kyle” had something more scintillating to say) that I noticed the spam posted over a month ago, but somehow I never saw the email.