Spam Explosion!
Written by rob on April 11, 2006 – 9:27 am -Almost every blog out there today suffered a huge spam explosion, including this one. You may or may not have noticed it, but the ‘comment spam’ (spam left in the comments section of posts) was quite explicit. I managed to delete all 100+ messages, but that is only a temporary solution. Therefore, I am now requiring approval for every comment user. So, if you go to post a comment now, I will have to approve it. However, after I approve one comment all subsequent comments under the same name won’t need to be reapproved. This should keep the spammers at bay temporarily, while I tweak the filters.
Posted in General Stuff | 5 Comments »
April 11th, 2006 at 10:31 am
yeah sorta wondered who posted with those names…even when i didnt see and comments left by them
April 11th, 2006 at 4:18 pm
It’s really annoying if you ask me
But I guess its a good sign that I got spammed… it means my blog is accessible on search engines.
April 11th, 2006 at 4:32 pm
lol yeah i searched eat your exam and some stuff came up but not your site…
so i typed in eatyourexam and the first was ur site…then the rest were april fool sites that had urs as a site that fooled ppl
April 11th, 2006 at 4:48 pm
I think Technorati is where the spam actually came from. Searching for Microsoft Office 2007 Preview used to put me as the first hit, but since the article is over a week old now it is on the second page. (Technorati lists the newest stuff first usually)
April 11th, 2006 at 6:06 pm
My ebay account got ‘spammed’ too, somehow.
Someone put 19 sewing machines up for auction using my account.