Comments on: There is a Jedi in my Spam Box http://www.headrambles.com/2008/02/18/there-is-a-jedi-in-my-spam-box/ Rambles around the head of an Irish Grandad Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:15:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Banio http://www.headrambles.com/2008/02/18/there-is-a-jedi-in-my-spam-box/#comment-30430 Banio Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:17:22 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/02/18/there-is-a-jedi-in-my-spam-box/#comment-30430 Well he he's persistent if nothing else! Um actually "all your other blogging friends have no problem with it" Oh yes they do and they deleted him too! Well he he’s persistent if nothing else! Um actually “all your other blogging friends have no problem with it” Oh yes they do and they deleted him too!

]]> By: Grandad http://www.headrambles.com/2008/02/18/there-is-a-jedi-in-my-spam-box/#comment-30427 Grandad Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:16:28 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/02/18/there-is-a-jedi-in-my-spam-box/#comment-30427 Yup, Ian... You ended in my spam trap again ;) Yup, Ian… You ended in my spam trap again ;)

]]> By: Ian http://www.headrambles.com/2008/02/18/there-is-a-jedi-in-my-spam-box/#comment-30419 Ian Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:32:04 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/02/18/there-is-a-jedi-in-my-spam-box/#comment-30419 I got spammed again, I must avoid the 'j' word I got spammed again, I must avoid the ‘j’ word

]]> By: Ian http://www.headrambles.com/2008/02/18/there-is-a-jedi-in-my-spam-box/#comment-30417 Ian Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:18:02 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/02/18/there-is-a-jedi-in-my-spam-box/#comment-30417 I guessed I had been spammed. Am I a jedi? No, the Church of Ireland would never allow anything so colourful; though Yoda's English does have a 17th Century feel about it. I guessed I had been spammed.

Am I a jedi? No, the Church of Ireland would never allow anything so colourful; though Yoda’s English does have a 17th Century feel about it.

]]> By: Grandad http://www.headrambles.com/2008/02/18/there-is-a-jedi-in-my-spam-box/#comment-30411 Grandad Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:13:16 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/02/18/there-is-a-jedi-in-my-spam-box/#comment-30411 Ian - Heh!! I just found you in my Spam Box. Are you a Jedi? Ian - Heh!! I just found you in my Spam Box. Are you a Jedi?

]]> By: Grandad http://www.headrambles.com/2008/02/18/there-is-a-jedi-in-my-spam-box/#comment-30410 Grandad Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:11:52 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/02/18/there-is-a-jedi-in-my-spam-box/#comment-30410 RhodesTer - I don't mind negative comments. What annoys me is this bloke heading off on a weird tangent [talking about Jedi and the like, and refusing to enter into a discussion]. It sounds interesting, but he just blanks up. I warned him that if he didn't stop messing, I'd mark him as spam. He didn't, so I did. Now he's pleading to be let out. I'll let him out on one condition - that he writes to me, tells me who he is [to be kept confidential, if he wishes] and to enter into a reasonable debate. It really sounds like an interesting topic too. RhodesTer - I don’t mind negative comments. What annoys me is this bloke heading off on a weird tangent [talking about Jedi and the like, and refusing to enter into a discussion]. It sounds interesting, but he just blanks up. I warned him that if he didn’t stop messing, I’d mark him as spam. He didn’t, so I did. Now he’s pleading to be let out.

I’ll let him out on one condition - that he writes to me, tells me who he is [to be kept confidential, if he wishes] and to enter into a reasonable debate. It really sounds like an interesting topic too.

]]> By: RhodesTer http://www.headrambles.com/2008/02/18/there-is-a-jedi-in-my-spam-box/#comment-30407 RhodesTer Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:40:00 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/02/18/there-is-a-jedi-in-my-spam-box/#comment-30407 I had a frequent commenter for a while who couldn't say anything complimentary - he was nasty and disparaging from the beginning. At first I just replied to him and set him straight (given that he seldom had any basis in fact to support what he said), but after awhile I just deleted him and then banned his ISP, which my host lets me do. He showed up shortly thereafter on another ISP, which I promptly banned, and I haven't heard from him since. It's not that I'm a censor either, but I figure if you're going to say something negative, at least make sense. He seemed to be coming from more of a manner of doing it just to do it, rather than anything constructive, so BUH BYE. I don't have a problem with controlling content on my blog, which I pay for, but I'm not going to bounce anyone who disagrees with me - it's just the approach of being a jackass for the sake of being a jackass that I won't put up with. I do like your approach too, GD. I had a frequent commenter for a while who couldn’t say anything complimentary - he was nasty and disparaging from the beginning. At first I just replied to him and set him straight (given that he seldom had any basis in fact to support what he said), but after awhile I just deleted him and then banned his ISP, which my host lets me do. He showed up shortly thereafter on another ISP, which I promptly banned, and I haven’t heard from him since.

It’s not that I’m a censor either, but I figure if you’re going to say something negative, at least make sense. He seemed to be coming from more of a manner of doing it just to do it, rather than anything constructive, so BUH BYE.

I don’t have a problem with controlling content on my blog, which I pay for, but I’m not going to bounce anyone who disagrees with me - it’s just the approach of being a jackass for the sake of being a jackass that I won’t put up with.

I do like your approach too, GD.

]]> By: Ian http://www.headrambles.com/2008/02/18/there-is-a-jedi-in-my-spam-box/#comment-30394 Ian Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:41:11 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/02/18/there-is-a-jedi-in-my-spam-box/#comment-30394 I read a letter in one of the papers - I'm not sure whether it was the Irish Times or the Daily Telegraph - where the correspondent noted that US airport security was more relaxed, a child carrying a light sabre did not have it confiscated, "after all", concluded the letter, "the last killing with a light sabre was long, long ago in a galaxy far away". I assumed that the sleeper jedi included the esteemed minister and knowing that the entire younger jedi community had been killed in Episode 3, guessed he must have been a relative of the parents. I read a letter in one of the papers - I’m not sure whether it was the Irish Times or the Daily Telegraph - where the correspondent noted that US airport security was more relaxed, a child carrying a light sabre did not have it confiscated, “after all”, concluded the letter, “the last killing with a light sabre was long, long ago in a galaxy far away”.

I assumed that the sleeper jedi included the esteemed minister and knowing that the entire younger jedi community had been killed in Episode 3, guessed he must have been a relative of the parents.

]]> By: Grandad http://www.headrambles.com/2008/02/18/there-is-a-jedi-in-my-spam-box/#comment-30389 Grandad Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:21:43 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/02/18/there-is-a-jedi-in-my-spam-box/#comment-30389 Ian, No. [An interesting insight into Gormless' family tree?] He's on about something else, though he does mention that "<em>There are also a nuber of sleeper jedi in your green party</em>". I'm not sure what a nuber is? Ian,

No. [An interesting insight into Gormless' family tree?] He’s on about something else, though he does mention that “There are also a nuber of sleeper jedi in your green party“. I’m not sure what a nuber is?

]]> By: Ian http://www.headrambles.com/2008/02/18/there-is-a-jedi-in-my-spam-box/#comment-30386 Ian Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:06:11 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/02/18/there-is-a-jedi-in-my-spam-box/#comment-30386 Ah Grandad, He's not at you now. Is this the stuff about John Gormley really being Luke Skywalker's auntie? Ah Grandad,

He’s not at you now.

Is this the stuff about John Gormley really being Luke Skywalker’s auntie?

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