Ever since the hurricane, my phone and DSL lines have been flaky.

Surprisingly, the DSL has been more reliable than voice (as I type this, I have no dial tone (whooops…) take that back, I have dial tone with static, but I’m confident that based on tonight’s experience, I will soon, once again, have no dial tone.

The internet comes on and off as well, sometimes with a bright red traffic signal on the DSL modem, and other times simply not working. Sometimes it comes back with no prompting, others I have to log into the router and manually reconnect.

This is all a long way of saying that life is frustrating as hell right now, and that if I’m not posting, you’ll know why. Bellsouth guaranfrickingtees me that they’ll have it fixed next Tuesday…

Sorry, Blogspotters, but for now I’m going to have to ban any URL from blogspot.com, until they can get the spam situation under control. I’ve gotten dozens of comment spams today from various blogspot sites advertising poker, car rentals, golf equipment, etc. I’ve notified blogspot, and forwarded them the spam for each suspect subdomain, but have received no response from them. I don’t have time to fend off these attacks, which come from different IPs each time.

If I were a Blogspot user, I’d be pressuring them to do something about these spam sites, because it’s only going to punish the legitimate users as more of us are forced to take the same drastic action that I have today.

[Update at 3:30 PM EST]

This is going to be a tough problem for them to solve. The deal is that these scumbags are going in, setting up a blogspot blog with a bunch of nonsense text full of keywords, and the link to the real spammer site. I looked at a couple of the ones that hit me today, and they’d been set up today, with a single blog post. Once set up, they obviously go out and start spamming blogs like mine.

I don’t know how it would be possible for blogspot to do anything about these cretins preemptively, except to institute more stringent registration procedures.