Can You Blame It on Technology?
Technology makes it too easy. You can use blog software, set it up in under 5 minutes, find articles in random article directories and post a bunch of them the next minute.
Web hosting offers instant activation. You can host as many sites as you want under one account for less than $10 a month.
People get used to this kind of luxury. In fact, some of us were born with the well-connected Internet. Living without it simply is not an option.
But I couldn’t tell you how frustrating it is to attempt to contribute and create useful environment and then see others abuse it.
Recently when analyzing my web server access log, I found some robots constantly try to register and post spam links on the forum and link back to their sites for easy links. For some reasons registrations were successful but posts weren’t get through.
That’s why I didn’t notice it until last month.
And when I checked, I already have at least 700 registrants on the forum. Most of them are not real human being.
If that doesn’t sound bad, consider that my server sent confirmation email to perhaps other people’s email addresses without their consent. And that could just make me a spammer because the originating domain is my domain.
Now that could get me into trouble.
Luckily I found it sooner rather than later.
I imagined that people who spam are disallowed from accessing any device that connect them to the Internet for at least a month.
During that time perhaps they will have time to think about what they’ve done to the world at large. In some ways, I now appreciate lazy people who have no purpose in life. At the very least, they didn’t do things that hurt others.
They didn’t pollute the well we all drink from. These guys running the bots do.
I know, rants will not get me anywhere. This situation will not change a bit. Unsolicited emails have been there for as long as we can remember. As technology becomes better, we can learn from that in a positive manner.
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I am sorry that you were attacked by the bots. And I am glad that you found the problems and were not shut down. My blog is under construction and it was hacked last week. A warning appeared om Google about it maybe being unsafe to access. I cleaned up the problem and requested a review from Google to remove the warning.
A malicious iframe trojan was the cause of tmy problem. Thanks to my host and my programmer it was eliminated quickly. But the warning removal has not happened yet.
In fact since the blog had not launched and I lost time in woring on it I have not posted my site url here. Just wanted to say that innocent bloggers are vistims of very harmful hacks and it is ot fun.
I hope BBU remains free of any further problems.