I have always hated unsolicited “garbage senders”. From the olden days of junk mail in my college mailbox to email spam today, it basically did nothing but 1)force me to buy a shredder, and 2)force me to buy anti-spam software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now I find that my site is slowly populated with spam as well. What really concerns me is WHO is actually doing it – for a while now I have been removing two “contributors” to comments on my site – one called himself onyeoru onyeze, with an address at obihart@onebox.com, and another didn’t even bother to leave a name – just a link to mugu@mugu.com…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Doing a search today I discover that both these addresses seem real shady, especially it appears that their only existence is on guestbooks on the internet, and always comments that do not make any sense…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then an alarming note – one post by mugu@mugu.com actually contains nothing but racist opinion (while praising Saddam Hussein)<\/a>, while the other obihart@onebox.com populates the internet with false names supposedly living in Indonesia, the Philippines, Pakistan (by the way all countries where anti-american sentiments are strong)… here is an example of BOTH of them on the same site<\/a>… a Russian anti-nuclear site, it seems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I would be the first to admit, I occasionally shoot off what’s on my mind before thinking, but these identities seem to have been created solely for the purpose of filling a site with garbage. If they really want to make a point, they should not hide behind false e-mail addresses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Worse yet, I worry that these comments are used as a messaging system for people plotting terroristic acts… I truly hope that is not the case, but just to be careful I have placed their IP address on my BANNED list of “commenters”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What happened to having a web site just for family and friends to ENJOY…? \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have always hated unsolicited “garbage senders”. From the olden days of junk mail in my college mailbox to email spam today, it basically did nothing but 1)force me to buy a shredder, and 2)force me to buy anti-spam software. Now I find that my site is slowly populated with spam as well. What really…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}