Category: Spam
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Perspectives on blog spam
What do Nicholas Cage, David Carradine, Susan Hayward, Richard Burton and a whole host of Hollywood stars past and present have in common? Their names have been hijacked by blog spammers, according to Akismet which stops spam appearing on my…
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Spam blitz has Akismet struggling
Is spam-catcher Akismet struggling today, or is this just a peculiar one-off? As I write this at 2.00pm, the list of spam comments and trackbacks blocked so far today by Akismet shows 231 items, the majority from an IP address…
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Spam has its plus points
One of the side effects of blog comment spam is when you get such a torrent of stuff all pitching the same thing, you can end up getting an education. The majority of comment spam I’ve been getting in this blog…
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Spam dunk
While there might be no easy way to combat blog spam in terms of the sheer volume of stuff that comes your way, now and again a spammer/bot does something blindingly obvious: This was in my comment moderation queue this…
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No easy way to combat blog spam
I’ve been thinking about blog spam today. Not your typical weekend thrill subject but it was on my mind as I cleared out 218 spam comments and 1,696 spam trackbacks from my experimental Movable Type blog, all sitting in the…