Posts Tagged ‘spam’

From The Spam Files…

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

Johnny aka Ribuala writes:

Name: johnny | E-mail: goods@yahoo.com | URI: http://www.lucky.com | IP: 196.1.176.181 | Date: October 5, 2006

My name is Ribuala, I am 15yrs.I am doing a general finding out on blogs related to your theme.I have found yours most interesting. I would always like to give my opinion on matters I found on your blog. Is that ok? I like your blog.

Gee, I’m glad this bot has teased out my theme as I’ve been wondering myself what it is.  In case your curious it might be related to dental tourism.

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Russian Spam Lords Clog Up The Arteries of 0.333.

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Trying out yet another plugin to cut down on the amount of spam. Since most of it is directed at older posts I poked around for an auto-attendent and found this quick and dirty solution. Fingers are crossed that it doesn’t destroy the database.

UPDATE: It works and now any posts older than 21 days will be auto-closed for me, including tracksbacks.

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Doing Battle with the Russian Lords of Spam

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

In order to combat all the spam comments as well as fake trackbacks from countless porn and mortgage Adsense blogs I’ve decided to go back and use the Bad Behavior plugin. My first go around wasn’t entirely successful as it blocks some 50% of my meager readership–are they all really coming from porn and mortgage Adsense blogs? So rather than keep cleaning out the crap from the Akismet net and trying to massage my Awstats into something more closely approximating actual readership I’ve re-enabled the plugin. This time around though I’m making use of the white list, having tracked down the IP addresses of those people who were blocked last go around. Hopefully this will give me some peace of mind.

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