I have to admit, moving from Phpnuke to WordPress was a true Godsend. No more dealing with incompetent coding causing constant site hacking and hijacking, no more dealing with hundreds of spam “comments” and guest posts on the site.
WordPress is a completely different (and beautiful) “animal”, and since the move, I’ve had no regrades. None what so ever. The included Akismet anti-spam module makes my life oh-so-easy and peaceful. I have not realized until recently, how easy and peaceful (considering, the whole “minor” experience of losing my own children to their mother/abductor) my life has become. No more site restores, no more midnight hacking to my database, to remove zillions of records of spam. Yahooo0000 !!!!
Lately, I have been reminded, that people only contact folks who fight for different causes, create free tools, only when things go wrong, so they can complain. When things are fine, NOBODY, or very few, bother to thank the guys in trenches, fighting for our causes, providing so many amazing freebies.
Hence, I would like to remedy my own failing in the “thanking department”, and do so to all WordPress creators and contributors for their outstanding work.
Your hard work is providing this incredible tool for millions, as it simplifies web publishing, no matter how trivial the content may be, no matter how inexperience the users can be.
Thank you very much, indeed.
Having said all of that, now, to the subject at hand – spam from lawyers and others. Continue reading