Okay, perhaps I am being a bit unfair to vermin in this comparison . . . Today I deleted 146 attempted comments to my blog. I’ve let the comments build up for almost 24 hours. Unlike a year ago, only one of those was from a drug pusher; the bulk were from poker sites. Texas hold-em, world poker, poker room — all such creative user names. I especially like the return addresses. Yeah, I expect yghycj@a2058758668478c3ddcfbebfa56a55182.com to email me back if I send out a missive asking for more on his (her?) view that “Religion is still parasitic in the interstices . . . “.

The IP addresses are fairly random, so my guess it that these are all zombie machines, further evidence of the average user’s incredible stupidity. Helloooo? Haven’t you heard of AV software and consistent, frequent updates? How about Linux, or some other somewhat more secure OS? No, probably not. If I weren’t so lazy, I’d check and see if the ISP’s involved came from the Abscess States. That would be an interesting little study: The Correlation Between Zombie Machines and Red States. Anway, rather than shut off comments completely, I am requesting that commenters register before posting a comment. That way, if there ever IS a second valid commenter, I will actually know it. Yay. And now to put together a little story, based entirely on the writings of this past week’s poker and xanax spammers . . .

Oh yeah, if anyone wants to comment without regristration, castrate, draw, quarter, then slowly boil to death all spammers. Please make sure they suffer as long as possible, and as publicly as possible. Then I will accept unregistered comments again. Thank you. (I’m still trying to decide whether to categorize those who allow their machines to become infected and do nothing about it as spammers)

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