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I hate Spam, too!

Today I’m working on creating student blogs for my session with the J.H. House students in the morning. I am trying out TypePad as it seems like a model that may have advantages for elementary school although I miss many of the features Manila provides BUT the spam on Manila lately is a royal pain! I feel like it is merging through all the blogs I have. Some of the blogs are previous student blogs that I left open because from time to time I will get a very interesting comment from an interested educator or this one from Lucy’s blog:

Lucy’s post:

T.J. Leigh

       One day T.J. Lathe and a couple of other missionaries were on a missionary trip in Honduras. As they were going to a hospital that another mission group had bulit to talk to some people they noticed that they had to cross a swinging bridge. Well, the view was so beautiful that they wanted to take some pictures to remember the scenary. So as they were taking some pictures the swinging bridge collapsed and some people were injured. T.J. Lathe was not only injured……he was killed. At my chuch, Grace Fellowship, we were all mourning his death. But,…..we were also very, very, very glad to know that he was in heaven and that he had met his creator. The family has a good time remembering the memories and are very happy to know that they will see him in Heaven some day!!!   :)

          The pastor of Grace Fellowship was interviewed. I am happy to know this and also his family said that T.J. Leigh died doing what he wanted to do…..spread the news about God!!   :)

                 Signing out,

                       Lucy U.:)

Comment from the son:

Hi Lucy,

            I was looking on the internet and I saw this website talking about T.J. Lathe. Well…. T.J. was my dad and i miss him a lot. What you wrote about him really makes me feel happy and very proud of you. My dad was a good man and he died in the mission field which was where his heart was at. This does not discourage me from going into the mission field now because I know it is what he would still be doing if he were alive. Thank you for your comments about him they really mean a lot to me.

                                         Sincerely,

                                                       Joel Lathe

I shared this comment and response recently with a reporter from the Wall Street Journal. This reporter was really interested in the use of weblogs in schools and asked great questions. I thought the above post and comment showed how meaningful a comment can be to a student. Plus what a way to get your writing validated!

Comments are a crucial part of weblogs, and all this spam can really make it come to a halt in schools! Thanks to Will (via Betsy Devine), I can turn off Radio Hosting in Manila but I sure hope UserLand and other software companies can come up with a solution. Like Will says, it is not especially hard to delete comments but going to each comment is VERY time-consuming. Then to finish all that and have a fresh attack is really maddening. I find it strange that the spam is starting on my older blogs but seems to be making its way through and probably will get to my current one. Aaaaarrrrrrg!! A curse on these hateful spammers!

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One Response to “I hate Spam, too!”

  1. Hillary Meeler Says:
    October 29th, 2004 at 11:48 am

    I feel your pain. Spam attacked EduBlog Quest as well. It did take some time to go through and delete the messsages.