SpamWar Update 2: I Think We Beat The Scammers
Just so you know, although we are not out of the woods yet, it looks like we have given the spammers the slip.
As I suspected, removing the auto-enrollment system from the website was quite enough, because the spammers already had the name of the file they needed to open to invoke the automatic -enrollment program, so it was necessary to remove it completely, which I did this afternoon, just before cooking dinner (which was fresh angel hair pasta, Fillip Berio’s really excellent bottled basil pesto, with chili-lime flavored grilled chicken, charred onions, and grilled tomatoes, all from the barbie, and asparagus sauteed and then drizzled with a leftover marsala reduction from yesterday’s London broil.)
Now, somewhere on this site, I have a page that allows visitors to request an invitation to join BindleSnitch. Once I find that page and dust it off, I will post that page on the site so that it will not be necessary for anyone to send me an email sponsoring a potential member…unless you all think that’s actually a good idea.
Thoughts?
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12/23/2020 @ 9:56 pm
I want to eat at your house.
12/24/2020 @ 11:34 pm
Does Fillip Berio’s basil pesto use pignoli?
Don’t worry about sponsorship. As long as an actual human vets them.
12/25/2020 @ 12:27 am
I thought so, but I didn’t check the label. I am sure Satya did. She’s very particular about pesto.
Just exactly how does someone vet an application unless you have references from someone you trust?
12/25/2020 @ 2:03 pm
Short email conversation? Hi, welcome, what brings you to us? I have to ask because we get a lot of, uh, advertisers. If they’re really interested they’ll appreciate being screened because they don’t want to post where there are spammers. If they get insulted (assuming we don’t act like Grand Inquisitors) we probably don’t want them anyway.
12/26/2020 @ 3:41 pm
Alan your meal sounds ravishing!
Looked in here a couple days ago and the entire feed was filled with Mary Lin type comments, which sent me running off. It looks like you exorcised the bots though. Nostrovia!