May 15, 2004

The End of Innocence

Sorry to all of you reading this with one or another RSS readers watching various entries appear and disappear and reappear. I was just attacked by a spammer selling US Government Grants. Who knew?

This is a result of my 15 seconds of fame: when Crooked Timber tells the world about you, the Government Grants guy hears, and posts a comment to every single entry. So I spent the morning cleaning up the carnage, and then installing MT-Blacklist (after trying to get Scode working and deciding--after a number of false starts--that it wasn't worth it.)

(I am fascinated, by the way, that there is an entire genre of spam dedicated to improving rankings on Google.)

May 15, 2004 11:41 AM | TrackBack | in Other
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