All Posts Tagged With: "Spam"
Dying Under Comment Spam
I guess it had to happen at some point. I’ve just been hit with a major spam attack - over 900 in the last 30 minutes. It’s going to take me some time to clear them all out so please bear with me. Apologies in advance if you see any of the filth they [...]
23Sep2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
New Blogware Spam Blocking Tools In The Pipeline
The comment spam and trackback spam on my blog is starting to get to the levels where allowing anonymous posts is starting to look like a bad idea. It’s not so much the number I receive that’s the problem, it’s catching them before they offend any of my readers, particularly as some include some [...]
31Aug2005 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
Comment Spam
My decision to allow anonymous comments seems to have resulted in a lot of comment spam again - I’m deleting about 50 a day which is manageable.
I’m not quite sure why they do it? Are there hidden links in the posts in an attempt to increase the page rank of some Viagra site somewhere?
Peter [...]
Engadget using Technorati/Cosmos
After recently removing Trackbacks because of spam, Engadget have just added Technorati/Cosmos to their site.
I don’t reallly see though how this is better than trackbacks for controlling spam? Surely Cosmos can be abused the same way as Trackbacks?
I’ve also found Technorati to not be 100% reliable at picking up links.
Comment spam
I’m getting more and more comment spam lately - how can I reduce this? They seem to be targetting the same articles so surely there is something I can do …
11May2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
Spammer given nine years - (ZDNet UK News)
Yet another spammer hits the dust. A spammer responsible for sending over 10 million junk emails a day has been jailed for nine years by a US judge.
Jeremy Jaynes, also known by his alias, ‘Gaven Stubberfield’ , is believed to have raked in between $500,000 (£260,000) and $750,000 a month through sales of [...]
Encode Your Email Address To Stop Spam
Found this link on Thomas' blog He's found a great FREE service that encodes email addresses published on websites, so that harvester programs looking for public addresses to spam can't glean that address. Check out the service now Automatic Enkoderform. It's so easy even I managed it - check out my email address in the [...]
12Apr2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
Spammer Scott Richter fills for bankruptcy: one down, hundreds to go…..
It looks like the anti-spam laws are finally starting to kick in - last Friday, Richter’s OptInRealBig.com filed for bankruptcy, brought to the brink by lawsuits from New York Attorney General and consumer champion Eliot Spitzer and Microsoft.
OptInRealBig.com claimed assets of less than $10 million and liabilities of over $50 million thanks to the legal [...]
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