Oh My Blog…

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1. Trent (3 comments.) says:

   12/14/2006 at 5:59 pm

   Lost in your spam can? I sent in an entry a few days ago … was mine lost, too? I re-sent the entry earlier today.
2. Mark (118 comments.) says:

   12/14/2006 at 6:07 pm

   I got yours, thanks.
3. MatGB (4 comments.) says:

   12/14/2006 at 8:46 pm

   click-through. That, after all, is the point of all this garbage.

   No. Most blog spam is there to affect search engine rankings so that the site they’re spamming gets higher up in Google. Any clickthroughs they get are entirely incidental.

   Get them to go away? Fine. Install enough spam blocking that it no longer gets to you, and make sure everyone you know (ie friends and non-blogging family) never (ever) buy anything from one of these dodgy sites. Because that’s why the spammers do it, because people do buy stuff. Remove the demand for their products, and the spammers will no longer have a market.
4. Richard Evans Lee (1 comments.) says:

   12/15/2006 at 9:20 am

   Some of these are people buying blog spamming kits with no real clue how effective it may or may not be. Or even much understanding of what they are doing other than “advertising.”

   They aren’t doing any checking or testing. I have sites that never allowed a spam comment through and they get the spambots all day long, every day.

   Plenty of people – even some WordPress plug-in developers who you’d be sure would no better – do leave their systems open to spam comments and aren’t paying much attention because the spam remains on their sites for months. Since the plug-in developers usually have good inbound links it is probably good Google juice for the spammers.
5. kevh (2 comments.) says:

   12/15/2006 at 9:24 am

   I couldn’t agree more, granted Akismet catches a majority of the garbage that comes in, but I still have to go in every few days and clean out the spam posts it has caught. On top of the frustration it puts on readers when a spam post makes it thru, its ever more annoying when you don’t want to block a range of IPs because the bastards are in dynamic IP pools.

   And on Sundays, when I have nothing better to do, I generate a list of the links and submit them to anti-phishing/spam sites. I don’t know how many actually get listed, but my email provider filters for phishing, and I don’t want to be on the receiving end of some script kiddie that makes a good mock-ebay site.
6. Paul OFlaherty (2 comments.) says:

   12/15/2006 at 6:10 pm

   Here here! I’m in total agreement! 1372 pieces of spam in the past 4 hours is enough to make anybody was to name and shame these guys.