{"id":167,"date":"2009-08-11T10:37:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T09:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=167"},"modified":"2009-08-11T15:24:32","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T14:24:32","slug":"a-request-and-a-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/08\/11\/a-request-and-a-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"A Request&#8230; and a Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Image hosted on b3tards.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.b3tards.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.b3tards.com\/u\/baa16edb85ebab44e23c\/spam_by_bld.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Image courtesy of Bela Lugosi&#8217;s Dad<\/p>\n<p>We get spammed.\u00a0 Of course we do.\u00a0 It&#8217;d be lovely if we didn&#8217;t, though&#8230; so please stop it.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/08\/04\/dan-sulmasys-crystal-ball\/#comment-257\">particularly egregious example<\/a> from a source I&#8217;d&#8217;ve expected to know better arrived yesterday &#8211; I&#8217;ve decided to let it through for the sake of setting an example.<\/p>\n<p>Most spam, of course, gets filtered out; and, if anything gets through the filter, David, S<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial\">\u00f8<\/span>ren and I catch and delete it ourselves.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to change my policy a little, though: from now on, I&#8217;m going to consider myself at liberty to approve certain spam messages, but with the warning that I&#8217;ll change all the links to make the sender look silly &#8211; usually by directing readers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deagostini.com.au\/ilovehorses\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve started already with the comment I just mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>If you happen to be a spammer, you know who you are; but,\u00a0thanks to an IP locator, so do I.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image courtesy of Bela Lugosi&#8217;s Dad We get spammed.\u00a0 Of course we do.\u00a0 It&#8217;d be lovely if we didn&#8217;t, though&#8230; so please stop it. A particularly egregious example from a source I&#8217;d&#8217;ve expected to know better arrived yesterday &#8211; I&#8217;ve decided to let it through for the sake of setting an example. Most spam, of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/08\/11\/a-request-and-a-warning\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}