Imagine that: You are a blogger; new one. you really don’t know the rules of the game, you just try everything out. You get the best, cheapest option you can get (wordpress) and you just move on. You just install the basics (akismet).

Things go good. You start with 30-40 readers (readers not subscribers) and you move on. You get in average about 1.25 spam a day. Time goes by. You have reached a public of about 400 readers a day, numbers are increasing. What do you notice?

You get about 6 spam a day (all blocked by akismet).

But your posts are really good. People start to like you. You are from the lucky ones, who reach about 1000 readers a day. You think to yourself: I’m happy.

You receive great emails. You remember this one, where paypal (or ebay, you don’t really know) made a mistake and paid you 43,78$ for a sale you didn’t make. You think to yourself: I’m happy.

Akismet blocks daily more mail. It’s now up to 30. You delete them twice a day.

But wait, heavy windows start poping, while you write. POKER, STRIP, PORN, WHERE DO YOU HIDE YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER?, something is wrong here.

You check your paypal account. You never got 43,78$; something is wrong here. You run a full ad-aware check. Windows crash and boot. Coincidence. You run a full ad-aware check. Windows crash and boot. You’re nervous. You try again and again; Windows crash and boot. You google it, with another pc. You have to format. damn.

You’re angry. You install linux. Nothing works perfect (or easy), but at least its safe. You log in to your wordpress blog. During the 2 days you were offline, fighting, you got 300 spam mail, blocked by Akismet. You’re happy; you’re popular.

(wall of spam from chotda)