No Winning Allowed

Egad!

I've just had the worst possible bit of crap deposited here in my blog. Some twit (not the U.S. President either, this is another twit) left a comment on my last entry to try and sell me a penny stock. Will these people never learn what an ethical sales pitch is? I am amongst millions of people who literally detest spam, and now it's invading the blogosphere. I get over one thousand email spams a month trying to sell me everything from penny stocks to girls named Penny, and everything in between. Email has become a necessary evil instead of a fun thing to deal with. Is there no place in cyberspace where we can be free of these miscreants?

The blog world appeared to be a cool thing where people could sound off and post information without the incessant whining of marketers and advertising. Sorta like Usenet was like years ago when you could do much the same. Then one day, flamers and pornographers corrupted the medium, and it became a pain in the ass. Now it appears that blogs are headed the same way. Nitwits will take anything useful and fun in this virtual playground, and turn it into crap. You can't win.

Some people expect freedom, and other people expect to irritate freely. I just wish it hadn't happened so soon. I'm going to run away from home and live in a cave. (I just hope the cave has high speed internet access and a decent firewall.)

P.S. The spam-like comment has been deleted. No point in giving this rat a few more eyeballs after he's irritated me with his junk.