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	<title>Comments on: Dear Spammers: Please Die.</title>
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	<link>http://meish.org/2008/01/21/dear-spammers-please-die/</link>
	<description>a blog by Meg Pickard</description>
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		<title>By: Anna</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/01/21/dear-spammers-please-die/comment-page-1/#comment-35301</link>
		<dc:creator>Anna</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I realise I&#039;m quite late to the game, but bravo on the imaginative insults! Truly an inspiration.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I realise I&#8217;m quite late to the game, but bravo on the imaginative insults! Truly an inspiration.</p>
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		<title>By: Graham Anderson</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/01/21/dear-spammers-please-die/comment-page-1/#comment-34890</link>
		<dc:creator>Graham Anderson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Meg &#039;Leftie&#039; Pickard, you stand accused of the vile crime of &quot;soirÃ©es&quot;.  By virtue of the powers invested in me by the blogosphere, I sentence you to suffer from small pricked men called Joe making nasty comments on your personal blog out of the blue.

And you make very poor mince pies.

May Google have mercy on your pages. Take her down...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Meg &#8216;Leftie&#8217; Pickard, you stand accused of the vile crime of &#8220;soirÃ©es&#8221;.  By virtue of the powers invested in me by the blogosphere, I sentence you to suffer from small pricked men called Joe making nasty comments on your personal blog out of the blue.</p>
<p>And you make very poor mince pies.</p>
<p>May Google have mercy on your pages. Take her down&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Joe</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/01/21/dear-spammers-please-die/comment-page-1/#comment-34881</link>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Chill out, B.

I&#039;ve known about Meg for many years, going back to when she was allegedly not so soft and having little soirees with the likes of Tom Coates et al when blogging was relatively new. Know what I&#039;m alluding to?

My posting here has nothing to do with you and its quite strange that you decide to &quot;block&quot; me on that basis, here. Anyway, c&#039;est la vie, c&#039;est l&#039;internet. 

I&#039;m a robust defender of decency and humanitarian humanistic values, and post accordingly, robustly. Simple as that.  

Oh yeah, and the ***** that are ******* with Meg&#039;s site can go **** themselves with something barbed, spiked, and anointed with vindaloo curry powder.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chill out, B.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve known about Meg for many years, going back to when she was allegedly not so soft and having little soirees with the likes of Tom Coates et al when blogging was relatively new. Know what I&#8217;m alluding to?</p>
<p>My posting here has nothing to do with you and its quite strange that you decide to &#8220;block&#8221; me on that basis, here. Anyway, c&#8217;est la vie, c&#8217;est l&#8217;internet. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m a robust defender of decency and humanitarian humanistic values, and post accordingly, robustly. Simple as that.  </p>
<p>Oh yeah, and the ***** that are ******* with Meg&#8217;s site can go **** themselves with something barbed, spiked, and anointed with vindaloo curry powder.</p>
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		<title>By: The Girl</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/01/21/dear-spammers-please-die/comment-page-1/#comment-34879</link>
		<dc:creator>The Girl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh gosh. Only just now caught up with this. What scum! Sorry you&#039;ve had such a rough experience with the spamming fucks. Unbelievable what they do, just unbelievable.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh gosh. Only just now caught up with this. What scum! Sorry you&#8217;ve had such a rough experience with the spamming fucks. Unbelievable what they do, just unbelievable.</p>
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		<title>By: Gifted Typist</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/01/21/dear-spammers-please-die/comment-page-1/#comment-34877</link>
		<dc:creator>Gifted Typist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I had an infestation of malware a few months ago. It blackballed me with google and caused problems for visitors. All clear now. I think it came from a free host for my podcasts which I&#039;ve never done again for fear of the same.
Good luck. I like your site. Also the G section.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had an infestation of malware a few months ago. It blackballed me with google and caused problems for visitors. All clear now. I think it came from a free host for my podcasts which I&#8217;ve never done again for fear of the same.<br />
Good luck. I like your site. Also the G section.</p>
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		<title>By: Mr Wibble</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/01/21/dear-spammers-please-die/comment-page-1/#comment-34875</link>
		<dc:creator>Mr Wibble</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;skull-felching twuntbadgers&quot; - I like it very much.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;skull-felching twuntbadgers&#8221; &#8211; I like it very much.</p>
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		<title>By: brendadada</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/01/21/dear-spammers-please-die/comment-page-1/#comment-34868</link>
		<dc:creator>brendadada</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Meg &amp; Pete. 

*Goes off to change permissions*
 
Btw, &#039;Joe&#039; there will take any opportunity to publish his angry comments on any sites I frequent. I now have him blocked.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Meg &amp; Pete. </p>
<p>*Goes off to change permissions*</p>
<p>Btw, &#8216;Joe&#8217; there will take any opportunity to publish his angry comments on any sites I frequent. I now have him blocked.</p>
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		<title>By: Meg</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/01/21/dear-spammers-please-die/comment-page-1/#comment-34867</link>
		<dc:creator>Meg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Righty-ho, Joe.

I&#039;m going to let that comment stand, for now, but with a reminder to you and anyone else that this is my personal site, which existed long before my employment with the Guardian. 

I don&#039;t want to enter into any debate about my employer and its policies or approach, on this site - not least because it&#039;s nearly midnight and I&#039;m no longer at work, but also because it&#039;s inappropriate: I&#039;m not my employer.

Any more comments like that will be deleted: this isn&#039;t the place for them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Righty-ho, Joe.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m going to let that comment stand, for now, but with a reminder to you and anyone else that this is my personal site, which existed long before my employment with the Guardian. </p>
<p>I don&#8217;t want to enter into any debate about my employer and its policies or approach, on this site &#8211; not least because it&#8217;s nearly midnight and I&#8217;m no longer at work, but also because it&#8217;s inappropriate: I&#8217;m not my employer.</p>
<p>Any more comments like that will be deleted: this isn&#8217;t the place for them.</p>
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		<title>By: Joe</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/01/21/dear-spammers-please-die/comment-page-1/#comment-34866</link>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It doesn&#039;t tickle me in the slightest.

You will no make difference whatsoever as a mere cog in a big Lefty bigoted machine that supports Palestinian terrorists and Muslim sympathisers spouting their bile, which the G thinks is all part of some kind of right-on moral crusade whereas its paradoxically opposed to what they supposedly support: tolerance, free speech, and let&#039;s be friends attitudes. Like much of the Left, they now support an extreme (theological) Right because its merely anti establishment, like they are.

The term Loony Left has never been more apposite since 9/11; the G never more ignorant and disgraceful.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It doesn&#8217;t tickle me in the slightest.</p>
<p>You will no make difference whatsoever as a mere cog in a big Lefty bigoted machine that supports Palestinian terrorists and Muslim sympathisers spouting their bile, which the G thinks is all part of some kind of right-on moral crusade whereas its paradoxically opposed to what they supposedly support: tolerance, free speech, and let&#8217;s be friends attitudes. Like much of the Left, they now support an extreme (theological) Right because its merely anti establishment, like they are.</p>
<p>The term Loony Left has never been more apposite since 9/11; the G never more ignorant and disgraceful.</p>
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		<title>By: Meg</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/01/21/dear-spammers-please-die/comment-page-1/#comment-34864</link>
		<dc:creator>Meg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Joe, thank you for

a) your vitriol (most acerbic!) and
b) your kind words about my employer

It may tickle you to realise that I have only joined the organisation fairly recently, and as such, I&#039;m looking forward to making a difference however, and wherever I can.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Joe, thank you for</p>
<p>a) your vitriol (most acerbic!) and<br />
b) your kind words about my employer</p>
<p>It may tickle you to realise that I have only joined the organisation fairly recently, and as such, I&#8217;m looking forward to making a difference however, and wherever I can.</p>
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		<title>By: Joe</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/01/21/dear-spammers-please-die/comment-page-1/#comment-34862</link>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Althought I have to say, dear Meg, if you are head of Guardian Unlimited community whatever, you are full of Left Wing shit. The G is one of the most vile community spaces there is in terms of its Lefty bigoted censorship.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Althought I have to say, dear Meg, if you are head of Guardian Unlimited community whatever, you are full of Left Wing shit. The G is one of the most vile community spaces there is in terms of its Lefty bigoted censorship.</p>
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		<title>By: Joe</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/01/21/dear-spammers-please-die/comment-page-1/#comment-34861</link>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Youre too polite.

Allow me.

Mother-fucking cunting low-life reprobate dont-give-a-shit-destructive-mutha-fuckin-cunts.

Some of that will hopefully reach the said people, but the sad fact is it largely just reaches bots, servers, whatever-the-fuck computers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Youre too polite.</p>
<p>Allow me.</p>
<p>Mother-fucking cunting low-life reprobate dont-give-a-shit-destructive-mutha-fuckin-cunts.</p>
<p>Some of that will hopefully reach the said people, but the sad fact is it largely just reaches bots, servers, whatever-the-fuck computers.</p>
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		<title>By: Meg</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/01/21/dear-spammers-please-die/comment-page-1/#comment-34860</link>
		<dc:creator>Meg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>brendadada - sorry, I should have said.

As Pete discovered, it looks like an exploitation of WP via a plugin or theme, though it&#039;s possible that it might be possible to take advantage of something else within the php/wp interface. 

In any case, your best defence is to 
-- check for any new users on the site. I had one and I haven&#039;t the foggiest where &quot;she&quot; sprung from
-- modify the permissions of the template files to 444 or similar so they can&#039;t be written to
-- remove plugins you&#039;re not using or not sure about
-- update your WP install
-- change passwords for WP and ftp (and database, if you want to be belt-and-braces about the whole thing).

None of this is any guarantee that it won&#039;t happen again, mind.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>brendadada &#8211; sorry, I should have said.</p>
<p>As Pete discovered, it looks like an exploitation of WP via a plugin or theme, though it&#8217;s possible that it might be possible to take advantage of something else within the php/wp interface. </p>
<p>In any case, your best defence is to<br />
&#8211; check for any new users on the site. I had one and I haven&#8217;t the foggiest where &#8220;she&#8221; sprung from<br />
&#8211; modify the permissions of the template files to 444 or similar so they can&#8217;t be written to<br />
&#8211; remove plugins you&#8217;re not using or not sure about<br />
&#8211; update your WP install<br />
&#8211; change passwords for WP and ftp (and database, if you want to be belt-and-braces about the whole thing).</p>
<p>None of this is any guarantee that it won&#8217;t happen again, mind.</p>
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		<title>By: Clair</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/01/21/dear-spammers-please-die/comment-page-1/#comment-34859</link>
		<dc:creator>Clair</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And you lost not-so-soft due to spammers as well didn&#039;t you?

I have a terrible suspicion I know what one of the next waves of spam is going to be, but I refuse to mention it anywhere in case one of the fucktards sees it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And you lost not-so-soft due to spammers as well didn&#8217;t you?</p>
<p>I have a terrible suspicion I know what one of the next waves of spam is going to be, but I refuse to mention it anywhere in case one of the fucktards sees it.</p>
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		<title>By: Julia</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/01/21/dear-spammers-please-die/comment-page-1/#comment-34858</link>
		<dc:creator>Julia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Fucktards.  I hate when spammers destroy cool stuff for the rest of us.  If you move, please advise us all.  I&#039;ve only been following along with your wibbles and witters since the not-so-soft days.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fucktards.  I hate when spammers destroy cool stuff for the rest of us.  If you move, please advise us all.  I&#8217;ve only been following along with your wibbles and witters since the not-so-soft days.</p>
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