This week my website’s spam count passed 25000 spam comments. My first post was in July 2005, so about an average of 10000 spam posts a year. I can’t imagine having to manually moderate all that spam, but luckily I use Akismet and it deals with the majority. I probably only have to manually moderate one spam comment a day. So given all this spam you can see why I require an email (used as a sort of ID) for comments. I moderate the first post and any comments after that are free to post. That said, I do have a fairly liberal policy on posts and I think I’ve only not allowed one comment (due to a legal issue). The disadvantage in using a fake email (which I’ve approved many comments in the past with one) is that when you try to repost you have to wait for me to moderate.

The place that I do get the most spam from is through my Feds email. I’d say that 90% of my email spam comes from that account. I was getting some through this domain’s email but I turned it off until I decide how I will deal with it. Mike uses a form on his site for contact, maybe I (and probably Feds) should do something similar (with a captcha of course). The only real email to my Feds account was sent to all councillors, and it should be stated that they can reach everyone by posting to the Council list. Then maybe they can just have a link to UWDIR for if they do only want to contact one councillor and we can save the Feds IT guy time making email accounts that change often. Oh yeah, I see that Feds has a new design for the site. I guess this is a good time to change over before the next term where there will be a flood of traffic to find Del’s number to complain about Health and Dental plan opt-out…

Natalie was complaining last night that I haven’t posted in a while. I haven’t been feeling too well this term, though I’m sure a change of environment will help with that. Maybe living alone in a cold basement in Oshawa wasn’t the best decision I’ve ever made. Either way, this is my last week in Oshawa and I will be flying to Thunder Bay for 2 weeks on Saturday and then back to Waterloo on the 5th to start my term as a pretend Arts student. I haven’t been back since last Christmas and from what I hear, much hasn’t changed. Apparently the Golf Dome has been replaced. Thrilling.

Currently Listening to: It’s Beginning to Get to Me – Snow Patrol

Random Wikipedia Article: Bill C-60