The Entrepreneur's Take On Spam.

That's easy. Don't do it. Being an entrepreneur is about leverage. It is not about highjacking communication systems, stealing identities, or forging addresses. As you can see from the post forwarded below, spamming comments on weblogs will get you even more negatives than plain old spam email. And plain old spam email might get you a few sales, but it will outrage millions of potential customers.

Comments are turned off on this weblog because spammers from e-Learning companies left commercial adverts in comments here within two days of the launch of eLearning Entrepreneur as a category. I could have dealt with it by embarrassing them publicly, but that wouldn't have stopped others. So it's not like it doesn't happen. Even people you think of as your fellow professionals are capable of being so desperate for sales that they do something stupid.

Get your sales the old-fashioned way. Work for them. And don't buy anything from spammers.

Coping with Comments Spam - Brainstorms and Raves.

http://brainstormsandraves.com/
archives/2003/10/03/feast_61_unwanted_comments/

If you have a hate-on for comment spam you probably already have seen this, but Shirley Kaiser at brainstormsandraves.com has written a great post containing much of the collected wisdom to date on how to deal with the nefarious good-for-nothings. - SWL

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