Enough already
Listen closely would be spammers everywhere. I have a simple message for you, so please pay attention: Leave me be. Leave Blog be.
I'm perfectly happy with my anatomy. I'm equally happy with my hairline. I don't get headaches and have no need for painkillers. As far as I'm aware I'm also unlikely to keel over from a heart attack any time soon. Really, I have no requirement for any pharmacutical wares of any description. And I have painfully little interest in any of the dubious adult websites you publicise with ever increasing alacrity.
In short, I neither care for, nor desire, nor have any use for any of the myriad products which you seem intent on corrupting poor Blog to advertise. Neither does my small but perfectly formed readership. It's not why we're here. It's not why any of us are here.
Now go. Take your attempt to climb up google's page ranking mechanism elsewhere and leave me alone.
Leave us all alone.
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So it's not just me having a sudden rush of 8 spammers in the last 3 days - phew!
Just take all the email addresses and publish them in a file somewhere, so that they all end up scurrying around posting to each other.
Oh! And, of course, delete all reference to their websites, as you say, wouldn't want them getting a higher ranking from it all, now, would we ;-)
If your a MS Outlook user, cloudmark's spamnet works like a charm. I maybe get only 1 or so spam piece per day in my inbox; The rest get killed.
.rob adams
Email spam is reasonably straightforward to filter, but weblog comment spam is much harder - and yes, I've had a spate of posts in the last few days. Most of them have come from 64.200.21.218 and 205.177.122.2; I've added those to my block list. Meanwhile, Movable Type v3 just went into (closed-ish) beta testing. Hopefully, we'll be just far enough ahead in the arms race, but for the moment we're on our own. Keep me posted - MT-Blacklist is still an option, albeit a flawed one.
Incidentally, I suspect it's entirely PageRank they're after. And since a link on my blog seems to have lifted Luke's site to the #1 Google hit for 'Leopard seal authority,' it looks like they're on to something. Grrr.
Comment spam isn't a major concern for me for the most part. Usually it's little more than a trickle which is easily enough to deal with manually. The other day, however, the trickle became something of a torrent, with around 8 spams posted within a few hours. They all came from the same source, although annoyingly enough they used a consecutive sequence of ip addresses to get around the ip blocking: 213.91.217.13, 213.91.217.14, 213.91.217.15
Things have calmed down since then, so I'm feeling more sanquine about it all now - I wouldn't rush out to install MT-Blacklist just yet.
Still, roll on MT3
I got the same ones while I was away this weekend, but it seemed to have been a short spam burst. I wish that MT would let us block entire domains. Maybe in MT3...
Yeap, those were my IP's, so I've just edited the comments, removed the URL's, and left the email addresses to be picked off by email trawlers