At this point in the fight against spam, my blog is getting regularly hammered by about a dozen or so spam bots. And I've got mechanisms for properly handling all of those. But over the holidays, the amount of transient spam (and new additions to the spam bot pool) has...
I get a lot of spam. I've talked about this at length lately, but I raised the issue a long time ago, too. Some spammers scour sites for a handful of blog posts, and then relentlessly send spam comments to the small handful of selected entries. The aforelinked older entry...
I just added a reporting mechanism into my secret-sauce spam script, and I've found that over the last few days, 98.73% of all comments are being punted outright—and it's almost impossible to get a false positive in that count. Bonus....
The short version is that comments have been disabled here for a day or two now, but if I find the comment system broken in the future, I'll be sure to notify you all, as the failure in the comment system typically isn't obvious until after you've submitted a comment....
Some of you may have noticed that /dev/null is particularly inaccessible today. More so than usual. It turns out that the problem can't be blamed on Comcast (the cable connection looks good) or Belkin (the old Linksys router has been delegated to switch-only duty), and technically it can't be blamed...
Automatically spammed with automotive spam. 3000gt trans gears allison 1000 trans filter Amused. That picture there is, in fact, a 3000GT transmission. Ehhh...at least this is better than the "bigcock" porn spam I usually get....
Over the last six hours, I've gotten 400-some-odd spam comments on this journal. Lovely. Movable Type assigns a "-1" for comments posted from a blacklisted IP but also assigns a "+1" for including a previously-published email address. Previously, I was publishing all comments with a legitimacy rating of 0 or...
I keep a close eye on the comments posted here to /dev/null. The biggest reason for this is that I often get comments on really old posts and the only way I'd ever know is if I watched the comment list. Another (slightly less important) reason is to keep the...
How huge? Way huger than junk comments. Thankfully, the spam filters in Movable Type catch both. Over the last two months or so, I've caught around 20 junk comments. It's mostly automatic—roughly 50% of the time, it junks comments automatically. 45% of the time, it flags them as spam and...
This was recently dropped into the comment queue on my Cizeta-Moroder V16T article. It was, unsurprisingly, immediately junked. I recommend against reading the whole damned thing...but here it is, in all its glory. I've removed the links and email addresses at the bottom. Eco-motors. It is the pure motor. -...
You probably don't know it, but my "comments" forms at the bottom of each post get hammered by spammers. The spam routines in MT work really damned well and catch almost all of these without incident. I've seen one or two get past the filters but since I keep a...
