Spam! Spam! Spam!
My little site is in the midst of a comment spam storm that began late Sunday.
I moderate comments, of course, so none of it will make it through, but all the same it’s still a pain in the ass– there’s just so much of it.
From the looks of it, some spammer is using a legion of zombie machines spread across a slew of IP addresses and I am now beginning to ban various IP ranges from the site.
If you’re a regular, here, and you suddenly find yourself caught up in the dragnet and begin receiving Error 403 (forbidden) messages when you visit, drop me an email and I’ll take care of it.
My email address is easy to figure out– think “first name at domain name” and you’ll do just fine.
Email Article Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006 at 08:05am Mack Simpson
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1. makethelogobigger | May 3rd, 2006 at 8:15 am
Spammers should fucking die. They are the new parking lot door dingers of the internet.
Like they said in Pulp…
No trial, no jury, straight to execution.
It’a been worth him doing it, if I coulda just caught em, you know what I mean?
It’s chicken shit. What’s more chicken shit than fuckin with a guy’s blog? You don’t fuck another man’s blog. That’s against the rules, you don’t do that.
2. Mack Simpson | May 3rd, 2006 at 8:22 am
You gotta’ wonder about its effectiveness, too. I mean, I know it’s the ultimate in direct mail and, once everything’s set up, the cost of sending out two million slices of spam is practically nil, but c’mon. Out of that two million, what could the possible response rate be? .000001%?
3. makethelogobigger | May 3rd, 2006 at 9:52 am
You run word verification to help block the spam too? That cuts a lot of mine. Of course, I need traffic first to have any spam.
;-p
4. Mack Simpson | May 3rd, 2006 at 10:05 am
WordPress uses a centralized spam-filtering algo that catches most, but not all, of it.
What makes it past, I’ve been blocking through the moderation process and then banning the individual IP addresses to as high a field as I’m comfortable with (I’ll block the full range if the IP address is somewhere, say, in North Korea).
Also, looking at the spam, 95% of it seems to be hitting on one particular post here on Adverb, and it looks like they’ve keyed in on a keyword (I won’t mention the post for fear they’ll swing over here).
A few minutes ago I turned off commenting on that single post and I’m hoping that’ll ease my spam-squishing for the day.
And didn’t I see MTLB on the Alexa top 25 ad sites list? My traffic aspires to be like yours.
5. makethelogobigger | May 3rd, 2006 at 11:26 am
“…And didn’t I see MTLB on the Alexa top 25 ad sites list? My traffic aspires to be like yours.”
Just keep writing ‘good..
;-p
I also got hit like that after a recent trip to N Y Vroom Vroom show that I posted on, and over at Idea Grove when I mentioned a certain Hoops owner giveaway in Dallas.
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