{"id":2603,"date":"2003-01-09T22:19:46","date_gmt":"2003-01-09T16:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/09\/oops-an-apology\/"},"modified":"2003-01-09T22:19:46","modified_gmt":"2003-01-09T16:49:46","slug":"oops-an-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200301\/oops-an-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"Oops – An apology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looks like my site has been crawled by Spambots – some of the most evil creatures to inhabit the online world. If you have left your email ids in your comments I’m afraid they are already part of online marketers’ databases, and soon you will receive mails from online pharmacies, debt consolidation agencies, etc. <\/p>\n

Sorry about that. I have put in spam protection now (There is a “-NOPAM- ” before all mail ids, which should offer some kind of protection) But I fear it is closing the barn door. <\/p>\n

(No I haven’t sold your addresses to make a quick buck)<\/p>\n

(Incidentally, as a general advice, you should always spam-protect your email addresses when you put it where it will be visible on a web-site, like ravikiran@-NOSPAM-ravikiran.com. A human will know that he should remove the -NOSPAM- tag. A robot won’t )<\/p>\n

(Incidentally, #2, that is also why you don’t see my email address anywhere on the site. Not because I am a recluse who doesn’t like human contact, but because I don’t care for robotic contact) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looks like my site has been crawled by Spambots – some of the most evil creatures to inhabit the online world. If you have left your email ids in your comments I’m afraid they are already part of online marketers’ databases, and soon you will receive mails from online pharmacies, debt consolidation agencies, etc. Sorry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}