As I'm sure many of you have noticed, today has seen a selection of offensive spam postings bouncing off our blog spam buffer. Please see below the reply I sent to one concerned blogger who forwarded me an e-mail notification she'd recieved:
"[This] is one of many identical notifications of spam postings that have cropped up all over the blogs today. Don't worry, you're not being singled out!
Spam is unfortunately almost unavoidable if you use an internet site which encourages user posting and comment (like blogs), and it can often be offensive in nature. I have set the spam filters to screen as many offensive words as I can but it's practically impossible to catch them all.
As you may note from the e-mail notification below, this comment was not published (see Status: Not Published) as it was detected as spam. You can go into your blog settings and into the Review Comments section to delete unpublished comments."