An example of really bad marketing: spam is rude

29 Dec 2004 8:15am

Some idiot bombarded my weblog with 44 copies of the same comment to one of my post yesterday. This is the main part of the comment that was left:

This is an automatic test probe for demonstrates that
it’s possible to break trencaspammers captcha plugin for WP
and this plugin does not serve for anything, badly design and
besides pirated of the portal postnuke and phpnuke, that is bad
made, and does not serve for nothing.You should consider
the use of other alternatives as…

44 times! 44 comments I had to delete. 44 extra e-mails clogging my inbox (and hogging valuable space on my server for a while) and who knows how much time I’ve wasted taking care of someone else’s mess. Looks like for the time being my “Comment Moderation” will be on which means that future comments will be delayed in showing.

Wasted time and wasted money! Besides, bombarding someone’s website is not proper netiquette for what was suppose to be a test for advertising an alternative product. Now I know which website to avoid like the plague.

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