Spamzy

Perhaps one of the overall discomforts that most people have to deal with today is Web Spamming. People who have their own blogs and sites that contain guestbooks or allow visitors to place their own comments with regards to the site content or topics being discussed. It is quite easy to spot web spamming. For one, they are in no way related or saying anything about the website content and its overall essence. Comments such as purely placing information that would want to inform other visitors on certain websites or available information on the web is a clear case of web spamming. A lot of these can be seen in blog sites, especially the ones that do not use strict moderation of the comments that are placed beforehand.

There are two common types of Comment Spam generation techniques, manual and automatic generation. The first one does not really need deeper evaluation since as it connotes, they are manually inputted by visitors to any website or blog site that they come across and would resort to copy and paste the pertinent information in them while using alias names or names closer or related to the information that they are spamming. The second one, the automatic comment generation spamming, automated tools scour the web looking for comment like or guest book forms that allow anyone to automatically post bogus content on them. A lot of these have been going around and web spamming has become uncontrollable today. While blog sites have developed the option of comment moderation to fight off these web spamming practices, this provides an additional load for the blogger or webmaster who maintains the site. However, more load or not, the safety from maintaining the site and retaining its essence and the people who are inclined to properly place comments that are related to the theme of the site is more important above anything else.

As with all spamming efforts, this type of spamming is not that different from the main purpose of the others. Either to create mischief or promote sites that is yearning for attention to be able to earn profits through hits and visitors. Such is the main concern of most sites today, the race towards the most number of hits to be able to establish their sites and make them more visible and searchable in the web. For the, web spamming may seem to be a good way to achieve this, but considering that it is at the expense of innocent sites that are simply up for their own rational reasons, web spamming is really something that is disheartening and despised by people.

Other webmasters resort to testing their scripting techniques to answer the challenges made by web spamming. Programming for websites are done in various ways, and while each type of methodology may have their own special way of tackling this web spamming conflict, there is no doubt that unique ways of handling this problem will altogether provide headaches to the misdemeanors of web spammers over the web. This is why people take various courses in programming, to be ready for such challenges posed by mischievous web spammers present today.

Most people now know the official definition of spam- Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE for short).

That definition does several things we should look at. It categorizes spam as commercial It limits it to email Calling anything unsolicited creates vagueness

Even though all the above things may be true, there are several more things about spam that seem far more annoying. First: Spam doesn’t have to be commercial to be a nuisance. Second: Unsolicited commercialism is so widespread that you can’t avoid it by just changing websites. Third: A lot of people give out their email address one day and don’t understand why they get email the next day from that website.

Also what if Bill Gates decided to give $10,000 to the next 20 people who opened an email from him. That would be unsolicited, but who would care. (what if your spam filter tossed it out).

On the other hand there are people who will claim to be giving away money when they only want your bank account #. Don’t give it to them.

Even if all the above were acceptable, what is it about spam that really, really gets your dander up? Isn’t it the untruth. Isn’t it the out and out deception involved? If all email were limited to truthful advertising and genuine value, wouldn’t that be the solution?

Think about it, only offers of genuine value and truthful claims come to your inbox. Then we’d all have to make choices that (whichever choice you made) moved us forward.

Of course, there are a few things we should do to protect ourselves from problems. don’t open unexpected attachments don’t sign up for every get rich quick scheme you see remember that many, many online entrepreneurs will take your money and run. MLM (Muti-Level Marketing) stands for Millions Lost to Management

There probably isn’t an absolute solution to spam. What is spam to one person is a god send to the next. Perhaps a national preference list would be better than a no-send list.

The one thing that will never change is human nature. If there is a real solution to spam it’s probably learning to deal with it defensively. It’s more than a little bit like driving a car. You can’t really control the other drivers you must do what you can and that means operating your vehicle (whether it be a car, website, or business) in a safe, responsible manner.

Copyright 2004 Dean Walden