Hi People / Followers,
About a month ago I replied to a Comment on one of my posts that I thought was legitimate. It wasn’t. It was from what I call a Spam Bot. Immediately I started to get bombarded by Pornography and other garbage in my email an to the Blog. I Filtered these from my email and blocked them from the Blog. They are still coming (I don’t know how to stop them completely) but they are being filtered into a Spam folder. In my efforts (I am no Tech) things got screwed up: my Posts stopped appearing and emails to Followers (you) who wanted to be notified of Posts stopped being sent out. In one instance a Post I made went into my Trash (maybe that’s where it belonged! LOL.) But I didn’t put it there. I know these malignant emails have occurred to other Bloggers as well. So if you noticed (probably not) strange things happening that is what has been going on here. I called in a Tech friend to help me fix all this (thanks Ray) and I believe things will be OK now.
I’m always mystified why anyone would think that I (or anyone) would be interested in their garbage that they have tricked us into receiving – without our permission – and against our will – as well being as being very difficult to stop. I guess they have some success with this crap or it wouldn’t be happening?
Anyway … that’s what’s been going on.
Moving along.
Share this:
I used to get them and I did the same Spam thing. I also cleared my computer of cookies which helped.
Reply from My Favorite Westerns:
GP, thanks for that.
That is a really good idea. I’ll follow up on it.
Thank you for the update on about the blog. I am very sorry that this happened to your blog and your email. I hope you can still access and can get regular emails to your email account. I know getting a lot of spam emails are very annoying and it can make receiving other important emails very hard to access and respond to. I hope everything is now back working again with comments and your email.
Reply from My Favorite Westerns:
Quinn. Thank You.
It’s still not working properly, but I’m muddling through.
I get back to Ray shortly and see what needs to be done.
This is why I turned off my comments!
Hermit !
Thanks for your comment. (LOL!)
I gotta tell you though that Comments are huge to me.
Otherwise I feel I’m just operating in a vacuum.
SO I greatly appreciate any Comment.
Thank you.
I’m guessing it didn’t because I can see that one but not the previous one. Believe it or not, some people do this because they think it’s funny.
It is NOT funny.
I don’t if my comment went through. I hope so.
I’ve never figured it out either. Surely NO ONE wants a website full of porn and other garbage. I think some people do it because they think it’s funny. It isn’t funny.