{"id":1493,"date":"2003-10-22T13:54:18","date_gmt":"2003-10-22T17:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/spam_spam_glori"},"modified":"2003-10-22T13:54:18","modified_gmt":"2003-10-22T17:54:18","slug":"spam_spam_glori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1493","title":{"rendered":"Spam, Spam, Glorious Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just completed my first anniversary with SpamArrest and I have to say, taking the good, the bad, and the ugly into account, that it has been a lifesaver! <em>Twenty four thousand spams <\/em>were blocked in this first year.<\/p>\n<p>          <strong>Account Statistics: <\/strong><br \/>\n      Messages Processed   26912<br \/>\n      Messages Forwarded   2601\n<\/p>\n<p>I made the mistake during the last six months of 2001, of browsing European internet sites in search of material for the novel I was writing at the time. The browsing wasn&#8217;t the mistake, it was in using my own email address. At some point I must have risen up above the radar horizon for spammers, because my spam shot from 4 or 5 pieces of spam a day to 70 spam emails daily. My spam count is now well over 100 emails per day but none of it reaches me because of SpamArrest.<\/p>\n<p>The good I referred to is the <font color=\"#00008B\"><i>complete absence of machine generated spam<\/i><\/font>. I can put my email address <a href=\"mailto:david@stlawrence.to\">david@stlawrence.to<\/a> where all can see and the address bots can do nothing useful with it. It takes a live person at the keyboard to get a message to me. I can answer all email daily.<\/p>\n<p>The bad part is that some of my technically challenged friends can&#8217;t seem to negotiate the challenge-response barrier that shows up when they send me their first email. They see the autoresponder message and think it is spam and delete it. Sigh&#8230; I usually find their messages in my monthly sweep of the spam midden at SpamArrest.<\/p>\n<p>The ugly part is that I cannot use my regular email address for online purchases or I will find their acknowledgements weeks later in the spam midden. <\/p>\n<p>When I was composing this post, I Googled for the words to the famous Spam song. I haven&#8217;t find the song yet, but I did find an interesting post about spam on <a href=\"http:\/\/silflayhraka.com\/thewarren\/archives\/002558.html\">Silflay Hraka: The Warren<\/a><br \/>\nNow I know why that site shows up on so many blogrolls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just completed my first anniversary with SpamArrest and I have to say, taking the good, the bad, and the ugly into account, that it has been a lifesaver! <em>Twenty four thousand spams <\/em>were blocked in this first year.<\/p>\n<p>          <strong>Account Statistics: <\/strong><br \/>\n      Messages Processed   26912<br \/>\n      Messages Forwarded   2601\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1493\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1794],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-o5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}