August 23, 2006
I’m under attack
Well not really, but my blog is. This past week I have been brutally fighting off spammers from all directions. They are relentless. Before last week I [maybe] had a total of 5 incidents of spam. This week, 52. Say what? 52. One more time? 52. Bastards!
My blog obviously made it onto some dark and loathsome list. I’ve been so busy with the new website that I haven’t really had the time to combat these evil spammers from hell. Some good news though, the new website is coming along nicely and will hopefully be ready within the next 45 days or so. Yippee!
I set aside some time tonight to install some spam thwarting plug-ins and scripts. For the love of God I hope it works. I am so sick of seeing ads for Viagra and discount perfume and cheap tickets and phentermine. What the hell is phentermine?
Wish me luck. I’ll let you know how it turns out. In the meantime, if you see a comment from someone like jim@bigboobs4all.tv or stiff_one@viagracheap.ru, please, just move along. Unless, of course, you want a good deal on Viagra. Then yes, stiff_one would be the man for you. 
Filed under: Design / Development, Random Bits
August 24th, 2006 at 8:27 am
haha, that sucks. I’m having a similar problem with my discussion boards. I feel your pain.
August 24th, 2006 at 10:27 pm
My blog (of the Word Press variety) started getting spammed horrendously at one point. Then we installed Spam Karma, and let me tell ya… Love it!!
It’s been incredibly accurate in determining what is spam and what is a legitimate comment.
Good luck! and may all spammers rot in an unsavory, unmentionable place for all of eternity.
August 25th, 2006 at 12:06 pm
Yeah, doesn’t it suck? I installed a plug-in called Akismet which seems to be working pretty good. It caught 25 comments since I installed it. All spam.
Thanks for the tip Shawn, I’ll take a look at Spam Karma.