Wallace Handwerker Says “Tremendous post you have scored here! The web is overflowing of horrid writing and I was grabbed by your limpidity. Your closings are exact and I will straightaway subscribe to your rss feed to remain up to date with your up future day postings. Yes! I admit it, your authorship style is special and I will work harder on mine.”

This was left on my post of the university courses I took, which is actually just a list. I guess links from any site improves search rankings and SEO, the only other reason for this kind of stuff is infecting people who click through with viruses, or to drive traffic to some advertising site and get money that way.

I get a lot of spam from .ru emails, whether or not these are actually from Russian sites, I’m not sure, but the fact that the comments are in Cyrillic would suggest so.

I need to look into better ways at blocking IPs than adding entries on my firewall rules table, its messy enough as it is. My knowledge of Linux is enough for some basic hosting and server tasks and following instructions about this sort of thing in the way that means I could probably reverse it if I mess up. A job for another time when I’m not busy marking homework. (Was thinking “grading papers”, I’ve been in China too long if I’m starting to pick up the Americanisms the students use.)

• Matthew Tranbarger about my Stomatology Post says “GREAT BOOK! VERY CLEAR… you just have to practice… it has the most common characters (han zi) grouped by areas… so, also useful as dictionary-like book. The best: BIG LETTERS so you don’t need a magnifying glass.”
• Vigrx about my Coure Blogs/Websites post says “Hi, I can’t understand how to add your site in my rss reader. Can you Help me, please ”
• Laurie Crenshaw from “suesdiary (dot) info says about my Stomatology Post “My girlfriends and I have been getting a great dieting product at this website, Has anybody tried it so I can add some feedback. It is at Acai Berry Diet. Let me know what you think.. thx!!”
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• “Home and Garden Furniture (dot) org” on my second podcast post says ”Finally the truth!… I saw this really great post today….”