Blog comments...

I moderate all comments. That surely stops any spam reaching 'published' state and to you, but I have to deal with them all. Most spam and inappropriate comments are not interesting at all. Here are two comments I received for my last post in succession:

Comment:
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Always enjoy reading this blog. Please keep up the good work.

Commenter name: jamie
Commenter email: anonymous@anonymous.com
IP address: xx.xxx.xxx.xxx

IP address shows this one's from Florida. There's no email, no pharmacy URL etc., nothing that would raise the red flag, but it doesn't have any real content either. I guess this one might be from a spammer checking out if he can post a comment. I can even amuse myself thinking it's from someone real who enjoys reading my blog...

The next one is a bit nasty:

Comment:
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Im sorry to hear that your quitting smoking Burak , if theyres anyone
who deserves lung cancer its you .

My new years resolution is to releace and promote as much copys of ASV
as i can . Poetic justice as far as im concerned now you know what it
feals like to have your work stolen

regards

Commenter name: Raymond
Commenter email: esdrftgyhuji@sedrftg.com
IP address: xx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Raymond is from Texas, as it seems by looking at his IP. Obviously he doesn't know how to spell and he uses a QWERTY keyboard. I'd guess he's rather young. He ends kindly with his 'regards'. His email address really isn't random. You can guess the QWERTY layout even when someone is just pressing random keys wildly to make up a fake address, his address is not random in that sense, he probably keyed the address in neatly one key at a time... He uses a capital for my name and for sentence starts, which I find quite rare for this kind of a comment. Is he really angry or is he working for a cigarette company, I cannot decide. He's after 'poetic justice', hmm, I don't hear that phrase frequently, maybe he's a bit older than I first thought... What do you think?

Raymond, I'm sorry if someone stole your work, but your comment is very rude. (And I had my work stolen, cracked, key generator-ed, translated to obscure languages, many times. I assure you I know how it feels).