Spam eliminated?

Maybe in our dreams…

Last night I was reading an article that made a quip about Microsoft and spam. Supposedly just 2 years ago, Microsoft announced that they would eliminate spam in just 2 short years.

Really?

Well, 2 short years later and spam is still growing exponentially. Now, it’s not only in emails but blogs too. Over the weekend I played cat & mouse with a spammer on one of my other blogs (yes, I’m a multi-blogger). I tried using all the tools that come with my blog banning the IP, marketing certain words as spam, and virtual bad thoughts. The spammer just did not seem to get the message. As fast as I deleted the posts for things I’d never mention here, they were coming back. Not only was it really frustrating, but ticked me off that I had to waste my time on it.

My question for the day, what can we all do to make “spam not pay”?]]>

Maybe in our dreams…

Last night I was reading an article that made a quip about Microsoft and spam. Supposedly just 2 years ago, Microsoft announced that they would eliminate spam in just 2 short years.

Really?

Well, 2 short years later and spam is still growing exponentially. Now, it’s not only in emails but blogs too. Over the weekend I played cat & mouse with a spammer on one of my other blogs (yes, I’m a multi-blogger). I tried using all the tools that come with my blog–banning the IP, marketing certain words as spam, and virtual bad thoughts. The spammer just did not seem to get the message. As fast as I deleted the posts for things I’d never mention here, they were coming back. Not only was it really frustrating, but ticked me off that I had to waste my time on it.

My question for the day, what can we all do to make “spam not pay”?