Say what you will

Comment spam is a strange thing - those mysterious and cryptic messages that appear in the comments on occasion from people I've never heard of, containing links that, judging from their titles, lead to sites I'd for the most part prefer to avoid visiting. Mostly they get deleted as soon as I encounter them and then I mercilessly block their ip addresses lest they think me and my blog are easy targets. But this latest comment is different. Although it tries to link to what appears to be an online photography site, the site itself appears to exist no longer. And the comment itself, although mayhap a tad sentimental, seems tinged with a hint of melancholy.

I wonder what has happened. Has some poor lonely spambot been leased on the world only to be cut adrift? Doomed now to forever wander the distant shores of the internet where blogs like mine eek out their humble existence, seeking an audience for a site that has long since abandoned it. Alone and unloved. It's not an existence I would wish for anyone, even a poor miserable spambot.

So I'll leave this comment little spambot. Your philosophical musings and tragic severed links shall remain for the time being and I bid you welcome to return. But I warn you not to take advantage of my kindness and try to corrupt my innocent blog for the profit of others. Stray beyond these parameters and I shall ban your ip address without appeal.

And then where will you go?