I have been recently getting tons of spam put on my blog.  When I say tons, I mean that I have to spend about 10 minutes deleting spam from this blog every day.   The spam was on the ususal topics: discount or back alley medicine, various marital aids, you get the drift.

This is a library blog.  The closest that I write about on those topics is this blog post, after which I hope never to address this again.    I was curious about why people spam people.  I mean it seems like a nasty little practical joke: write crude stuff and send it to people’s emails and blogs and chortle with glee.  I have a mental image of some sweaty individual crafting spam while living in his mother’s basement.  Kind of like Howard Walowitz from the “Big Bang Theory”. 

Then I went online and researched why these individuals do what they do.  Get this: you can buy an ip address and resell it for a lot of money if it gets a lot of hits.  They way the spammers get the hits is by sending spam and the spammees (like me) go to the site (which has nothing on it) either out of curiosity (guilty I must admit) or to unsign up from the spam logs. 

So basically these little deviant jerks just want attention.   Well, there are ways of stopping spam, including putting one of those little things where you have to type in a code to post a comment which stops the automatic group spam and means that you have to be a human being to post a comment rather than a deviant in a basement.

So, if you decide to read this “spam for brains”

Leave my blog alone.

There is a famous curse for book stealers I have posted in my library.  I am going to modify it below.  I hope it works

For him that post a spam on my blog, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him.  Let him be struck with palsy and all his member blasted.  Let him languish in pain crying aloud for mercy and let there be no surcease to his agony till he sink in dissolution.  Let bookworms gnaw his entrails in token of the worm that dieth not, and when at last he goes to his final punishment, let the flames of hell consume him forever and aye.

That means you, you mouthbreathing spammer!