Thanks to you all for pointing it out to me.

I was hoping to tell you that Stephaine the spammer should now be gone from all your comments and profiles, as we did a global ‘remove’ yesterday, but he, she or it has been attacking us again.

This is clearly an attempt at a scam, suckering people in, developing contact then, ‘please give us your bank details’ or similar. PLEASE IGNORE or remove.

Flattered though we are by their attention, it is bloody annoying. There are software solutions that are complex and cumbersome to install, so for now we are going to see how it goes, though technical wizards Michael and Paul are working on ways of blocking emails from the streets around his billet.

We know where he lives and have his registered email address, having traced his address in Senegal. I wanted to invite everyone to bombard him with emails from us, special anti-spam poems and such, but he would doubtless just use the extra email addresses to attack even more widely. We could send in the heavies, an elite squad of Write Out Loud poets, the dastardly doggerels, to stand outside his door reading poems until he surrenders and promises to reform. But the bus fares from here to Senegal are prohibitive.

Sorry about it, and thanks for your forbearance. Anyone got a poem out of it? Mine is here.