{"id":3085,"date":"2009-09-20T13:46:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T20:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2018-12-25T06:29:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T13:29:44","slug":"spam-in-the-rss-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/09\/20\/spam-in-the-rss-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"Spam in the RSS feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam eggs and spam.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Putting aside the Monthy Python quote, above, readers using an RSS feed (such as Google Reader, NetNewsWire, Vienna, etc.) will have noticed that yesterday&#8217;s postings had summaries inundated with spam.  This spam appears to advertise stimulants which readers here have no need of, this blog offering a natural high.<\/p>\n<p>This is what it looks like:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/RSSSpam1.jpg\" width=\"673\" height=\"202\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Mercifully, my RSS feed only contains a brief extract of the posting so the <i>schmuck<\/i> who did this doesn&#8217;t get his click-through link to show up.  I reposted the piece under a different name but no joy.  The same spam in the summary field showed up.<\/p>\n<p>Some very smart people are on to this and I found the fix on <a href=http:\/\/www.anwyn.com\/2009\/07\/14\/have-you-got-anything-without-spam\/ target=_blank>Anwyn&#8217;s Blog<\/a> which I recommend if your blog is similarly afflicted.<\/p>\n<p>Suffice it to say that the problem is fixed and the revised posting of yesterday&#8217;s piece now looks like this in the RSS reader:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/RSSSpam2.jpg\" width=\"613\" height=\"243\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, there&#8217;s no way of deleting individual articles from the RSS history but at least newer pieces are now shown without spam, viz:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/RSSSpam3.jpg\" width=\"613\" height=\"153\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam eggs and spam. Putting aside the Monthy Python quote, above, readers using an RSS feed (such as Google Reader, NetNewsWire, Vienna, etc.) will have noticed that yesterday&#8217;s postings had summaries inundated with spam. This spam appears to advertise stimulants which readers here have no need of, this blog offering a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/09\/20\/spam-in-the-rss-feed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spam in the RSS feed<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sofware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33262,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions\/33262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}