Spam Visits DogReader

In the time since Chris Pirillo asked me to start posting articles here, spam has been a constant. There is not a single day during which there is a lull in the spam. Today is a milestone of sorts. DogReader has passed thirty one thousand (31,000) spam messages.

In order to put this in some context, let’s say that I spend four second with each spam message. That would be to check if it is indeed spam or whether some legitimate comments were sent there. Then that spam is marked and deleted.

At four seconds per spam, that is 124,000 seconds or 2,066 minutes. In hours, it is 34.444. Let’s just call it thirty four hours, for the sake of round numbers. That is a week of work. That is wasted time that is not financially compensated, no matter how many Google clicks the site generates.

It is just so annoying - spammers are such a blight!

Catherine