Education on Spam

Some good questions by y'all about the spammers.

First, Spam is unwanted messages - usually e-mail, but can also be comments on blogs like this.

Second, Spam is rarely generated by a person. Most often, it's done by a computer program.

A computer can be programmed to send an e-mail message to everyone in a network.
A computer can be programmed to search blogs and post comments to them.

That's what's happened here.

The "Secret Word" test is there because computers can't read. So, while they can automatically send a message, they don't know how to answer the test question, "What word do you see?"

Thus, stopping automated spam.

You, lucky humans, can see and thus must take this test with every post.

Say, "Thank you, Spammers."