Wed, 26 May 2004

Blog SPAM

What do I awake to this morning but over 100 SPAM comments, mostly for online casinos or "banned" books (i.e. goverment program catalog scams). They weren't even kind enough to grace me with "pitchers of nekkid wimmens" - just links and obnoxious, nonsensical text. Pretty obviously an attempt to "Google-up" their own shady sites.

It didn't take a whole lot of work to remove them, but it certainly was aggravating, and has given me cause to consider just shutting off comments. But the comments in a blog are half the fun: without comments a blog just becomes a true "vanity" site. Comments allow one to engage in a sort of conversation with one's readers, and that, in my not-so-humble opinion is a large part of what makes blogging so special.

Today's attack was annoying - but if they'd hit me with 1000 it would have seriously pissed me off. Somethings gotta be done here: maybe I go to a registration scheme like orangeguru uses. It annoyed me the first time, but I can certainly see his point now.Or maybe I play around with some filtering schemes. But something will be happening - stay tuned.

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Notes: If you put a <mailto:> link in the URL field your address will not be mangled: this could be a bad idea as your email address could be easily harvested by bots designed for SPAM. The comments field should now format correctly for line feeds and carriage returns: when you hit the 'Enter' or 'Return' keys in your comment it should break to a new line. The text should wrap cleanly. Please let me know if it doesn't. No HTML tags will pass through - entering links seems to be the main cause of comment SPAM. Also, please be sure that Javascript is enabled in your browser before attempting to post a writeback. Sorry for any inconvenience, but this really helps cut down on the amount of comment SPAM I have to deal with.
 
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