What is spam?

If you google spam, you get a few difference results, this is what  Dictionary.com has to say....

spam  

/spam/

Noun A canned meat product made mainly from ham.

Verb Send the same message indiscriminately to (large numbers of recipients) on the Internet.

You will also learn that Spam is cheap, crazy tasty and a favorite for its shelf life.

That's not the spam I would like to b!t#h about today... I am referring to spam the verb, those emails saying you've just won a million dollars, telling you how badly you need that little blue pill, and countless other products you just can't live without.  Lately I've been getting more than my fair share of spam in my blog comments, stuff  like:

Wonderful article! That kind of into should be shared around the web.

Disgrace on the seek engines for no positioning this publish higher!  Come on over and talk over with my site.  Thank you :=)

Feel free to visit my web-site:: make money with google and clickbank review.  Here is my website...

What's a girl to do?  Change it so only registered users can post comments?  Now instead of anonymous comments, I'm getting the same comments from fake user names.  4 this morning!  

I hate word verification, it slows you down, and half the time I enter them wrong because of the blurry slanted letters.  So comment moderation is looking like the only resort I have left.

Are you bombarded with spam?  How are you dealing with it? Do you use comment moderation?  Do you like it?  ARE YOU A ROBOT?  ARE YOU HERE TO SPAM ME (please don't)

Spam

Does anyone else get spam that says nothing? No subject line, no text, no PFO, just a “from” address, nothing else? They’re very mysterious sorts of spam... a little foreboding. It’s kind of like getting an anonymous, wish you were here postcard in the mail, and you don't know anyone who is on vacation. They keep getting through my firewall thingy, and my junk filters. Every time I get another one in my inbox I can't help but wonder where they came from, like maybe someone is using them to spy on me, maybe they’re portals to another cyber universe, or an odd computer worm. I don’t know. But they kind of freak me out. I’m almost even superstitious about deleting them.... except the idea of leaving them there creeps me out more...