November 02, 2004

Dear blog spammers

Posted at November 2, 2004 05:39 PM in Web Sites .

Congratulations on discovering my blog, which must now be popular enough to attract spammers. I would urge you to notice that comments must now be approved, so no one is seeing your spam comments because they are being deleted before made publicly available. I hope that you possess enough brain cells to stop wasting your time. And if you think that I want cialis, imported drugs, loans from the UK, gay porn, or any of the other things being posted, let me clear it up for you: I don't.

Dear everyone else:

Due to the recent influx of spam posts in my blog comments, all comments must now be approved. I will approve comments as quickly as possible as I do value everyone's comments--hearing from you all is part of what makes blogging so enjoyable!

Sincerely,

Kevin

Comments

What's going on? My blog was just hit (massively, I might add) recently as well --- about once every 7 minutes, to be precise. Even just having to delete them from the moderation queue has been a real pain.

Posted by Tom at November 2, 2004 07:29 PM

This all started about 2 days ago, and it's not been letting up much since. I can't figure out if it's automated or not... sometimes a bunch are from the same IP but with different messages, sometimes a bunch of the same message is posted from a bunch of different IPs. It is rather weird.

As with most spam things, it hopefully is a cycle and will cycle out soon. :)

Posted by Kevin at November 2, 2004 07:50 PM

if it is automated, you would have one of those images .."type this in"...u know :P

but then again it could be a person..im glad you decided to moderate it instead of creating a user login. logins are very big detterants for most people, because the process takes too long :p

Posted by Sonic_Molson at November 3, 2004 10:07 AM
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