The other day, after checking the email account in which my comment posts and user submission get sent to , I have about three hundred emails in the box. Seeing as how over the last 2+ years, only 3 people have left a comment and 4 people actually sent a user submission to me, I figured I got spammed. This happened once last summer on a post I created almost two years ago. It actually looked like a human wrote them, so I left them there out of amusement.
But this was a different story. There were upwards of three hundred all wanting me to visit their del.icio.us list of vagina links and sites full of free ring tones. The email address names were quite amusing as well. This is one of my favorites:
And I added the mailto link so I can hope someone will spam them back.
As a result of this I have removed my user submission and comment forms from the site. I am in the process of setting up wordpress and they have a plugin to handle problems like this. Until then, those who know how to contact me will.
joe