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February 06, 2008
Want to comment? You're welcome on the forum
I welcome comments on this blog. There's no way that I want to stop any readers coming back with comments on what I have said - such disussions make a very lively ongoing debate on certain subjects, and other viewpoints add so much to what is sometimes somewhat onesided in what I write.
But, this morning, I have turned your ability to comment here off. That's because there's been a significant growth in "Comment Spam" - people or automata who are posting up messages off topic to advertise their services and bearing no relationship at all to what this site is about. To give you an idea of the scale of this, I'm seeing about 2 dozen comments an hour and that's 24 x 7 and here on the "Save the Train" blog, I see that over 11000 comments have now been submitted to a blog that has some 250 entries of mine in total
Here's a graph of our incoming email traffic
The red section is emails which are rejected by our spam filters, and the blue are emails that are delivered to our email boxes. Each bar is 24 hours, with weekly lines. Horizontal lines every 250 emails.
But - PLEASE - comment via the forums that I use / administer. I am posting this to both my Horse's Mouth blog - Open Source programming, Hotel, Wiltshire, Personal stuff and to my Save the Train blog where I'm making dealing with train services (or lack thereof) from Swindon via Chippenham and Melksham to Trowbridge and Salisbury.
Forums:
Opentalk - Open Source
Save the Train - TransWilts Train Service
First Great Western Coffee Shop - Rest of First Great Western area
I look forward to your - human, real - comments on those places!
Posted by gje at February 6, 2008 11:07 AM