Matthew who installed APC for me has finally cracked (I think) what was causing my site problems over the last two weeks. It looks like over the last two weeks I’ve been under a massive site attack, receiving around 350 spams a minute, that was overloading my server. We think what was happening [...]

I’ve just read two articles that highlight how poor Digg’s spam controls are, and how Digg is struggling to achieve its original mission of letting its users decide what gets on the homepage.
The first article gives some possible ways to get a competitor’s site banned. I’m certain that there must be people out there [...]

Although the WordPress plugin Akismet does a good job of stopping spam, it does occasionally generate false positives, which are hard to correct because of the sheer number of spam messages that would have to be scanned to find mistakes.
I’ve decided that it’s time to add a couple more layers of defence so that I’m [...]

Now that I’ve relented in my crusade against full text RSS feeds, I’ve decided that Captchas are now my biggest pet hate.  CAPTCHA stands for “completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart” and are the usually unreadable string of text that many sites now ask you to enter before you can [...]

I think the reason the amount of spam getting through my blog filters has increased, is because spammers have stepped up their efforts over the last couple of days.
I deliberately don’t clean out my Google Mail spam folder so that I can see a rolling number for the number of spam messages I received over [...]