barnson.org Half-baked opinions, served lukewarm.

OK, so I have had no fewer than seven failed registrations today from people with names who are variants on "have faith in god". Here's a hint, "have faith in god"... If you really want to post on my blog with religious messages, use a valid email address! Seriously, that's all it takes. Use a valid return address, and you can post to your heart's content. As long as your comments follow board guidelines, I'll let them stand. This, of course, means "no advertising", so if you post the same message with twenty-six spammish links to a web site, I'll kill it along with the "vi8gra ci4lis enl4rge ipso facto annuit coeptis novus ordo fellatio" posts I have to prune on a regular basis.

One would think that, if "have faith in god" was a pious chap, he'd avoid the appearance of evil by using a fake email address. I mean, isn't lying a sin? Or, if he valued his pseudonymity, he could always post anonymously here, following the clear instructions and looking at the little picture to ensure he's not an automated script of some sort.

Heck, some Chinese spammers have figured this out, and apparently hired laborers at $0.25 a day to submit spammish comments. The least you can do is register a throw-away account, post your troll, and then never check that free-mail account again. That's what everybody else does.