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Screaming 8/16/2008 2:45:01 AM
I have a question that I know no sensible honorable person will be able to answer but I'm going to ask it anyway. Why on earth do people destroy things that don't belong to them? What joy can they possibly receive?
I'm talking about spammers today. At least five times per day some spammer goes into my guest book and put junk and FILTH. And I have to clean it up.
Which reminds me THANK YOU to the ones of you who over looked the spam and signed the book anyway.
My old guestbook was coded so that spammers could not get in but people wanting to leave a mesage were cut off in the middle and I could never get the entire message. The program had a word count. So I asked Brenda to put in a different program and she did but that brought the spammers which like I said it's an all day thing getting rid of their trash.
Yesterday a spammer got in and was able to use a code to keep us from deleting him. Even Brenda couldn't delete him and believe me that's bad. Brenda is extremely good and she's computer savvy.
For months Brenda had asked if I wanted her to track them down and I said no since we could get rid of it. Yesterday when I couldn't I was so ticked that I got the email and emailed the person and told them to stop spamming me. Today they have highjacked my entire guestbook. Of course it's early in the morning and Brenda hasn't seen it yet.
That brings me to the title of this post. I am so upset by this that I want to scream. To be honest I want to let out with a string of curse words that would put a sailor to shame but it would do nohting but devalue me.
This person has no idea what it means to me to have someone sign my guest book. He doesn't know how often I look at the messages or that when I'm feeling down I can find joy in the people who took the time to write to me. He doesn't know that the guesst book is my support system when I get nasty reviews. He just would never know how much he's taken away by taking away something so personal and meaningful to me. And the thing of it is he doesn't care. Maybe I should stop saying he it could be a she. But what a shame that someone would destroy something that means so much to me just as a joke.
As I'm writing this I have decided not to give anymore power to this sick person. It's done none and apparently there is nothing I can do about it. Brenda will probably put back up the old book but there will be no way to replace the messages that are now lost. And I can't even beg people to go and sign my guestbook because frankly at this moment it's still highjacked.
So while I've calmed down a bit. Still don't like it. I think I'll just pray for this sicko to get some help.
To all of the normal people out there, please have a good weekend and forgive me for my early morning rage.
