February 12, 2008

Over a quarter million spam comments

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Yukon Pete and a can of spam (click on link to go to original image and creative commons license at flickr

On my Askimet spam page for Daily Chronicles of the American Civil War blog, the message today reads, “Akismet has caught 258,378 spam for you since you first installed it.”

That’s a lot of comment spam.

I really, really hate spam of any kind.

I really, really like Askimet. I just moderated 10 spam comment that got past it — out of 4000 since the last time I checked the comment moderation page. If I had to go through each and every one, I’d have comments turned off to that blog. There is just too many.

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January 23, 2008

© I’m not a lawyer, but I stayed in a… ©

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From a discussion in the comments of a post on Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger, Fighting Scrapers With Your Left Jab.

Regarding copyright, Mike Goad made some good points and refuted some misguided information.

I state this as a copyright attorney. Further, my comments here relate only to copyright law in the United States.

For various reasons, a few years back, I did a lot of studying of copyright and copyright related issues — enough so that I feel I have a pretty good layman’s understanding of it. It’s more than just a bit gratifying to have a professional back up something I’ve said about it, though.

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