Have I arrived or what?
Yup! Made it to the big league. This Blog, rear deaders, is now part of the exclusive club that gets spammed. Yes. I’ve got comment spam.
Much as I like the special status accorded to me by the bloody spammers, I don’t think I deserve it. Truth be told, I hate it. I would even go to the extent of cursing the bloody arseholes. In fact I will.
I wish the damn spammers die. I wish all their children get good jobs in a government of India undertaking. I wish they were all made to see every friggin mega serial on Tamil TV. I wish they would just go away.
But I don’t think they give up that easily. However big my psychic powers are, I just can’t wish them away.
So beginning today, I’m gonna start looking seriously at MT Blacklist. Right now, though, MT Blacklist isn’t compatible with MT3. But before that, comments will be moderated. Which means, you might not see your comments till I actually authorise them. Sorry about that folks. I seriously wish there was a better way. But I don’t think there is any for now.
Suggestions always welcome. If you’ve got a nice way to protect yourselves from spam, mail me at ravagesatselectiveamnesiadotorg or my gmail address.
And till then, bear with me.
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August 20th, 2004 - 01:50
CCG - Didn’t Joshua Salik visit you before ? He (or she) visited my site, bluffed something about half full glass with a link. I saw that in so many blogs prompting Deepak (http://vdeepakis.blogspot.com) to write a post abt him.
August 20th, 2004 - 02:42
Yes. He did come and said something about optimism and yahoo games and stuff.
This is worse. Viagra, and xxx dvds and stuff.
August 20th, 2004 - 05:31
I think you should go for auto-close comments. You cannot keep on blacklisting people. Perhaps a whitelist would a better idea…
August 20th, 2004 - 09:02
Well, till I am free of it, I may as well be happy.
Spam comments huh. How is MT blacklist going along then? Better now?.
And here is my spam.
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August 20th, 2004 - 09:57
Yeah yeah.. Serious Problem ..
I wish Bill Gates would Donate some of his Millions to Combat Spamming in Comments..
I Wish
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August 20th, 2004 - 10:17
Testing comment moderation
August 20th, 2004 - 10:38
BTW what sort of comment spam did you recieve? I once recieved a lot of you-know-what. Afterwards, I got spammed by Linux advertisers.
Since you are using MT, there are several plugins available for you to prevent spam. I guess you will have to turn to them or perfom comment moderation everytime someone posts a comment.
August 20th, 2004 - 10:41
The usual. Viagra, miracle cures, stuff.
Iam looking at MT Blacklist. As I mentioned in the post. It is by far the best.
Let’s hope things are better.
August 20th, 2004 - 11:02
Looks like you liked the spams
so here is my contribution :
HOOLAA HO HOO… BHOOTTAAATAA HOO HOOO…
JINGHAAA LALALA HO HOOO… MUTTAATAA HOO HOO…..
Daaaaaaaaamnnn… Does spamming get any better than this???
August 20th, 2004 - 11:42
There’s an Emergency release of MT-Blacklist just for you…
See..
http://www.jayallen.org/comment_spam/2004/08/mtblacklist_v20e_released
August 20th, 2004 - 12:48
Kumaraguru: I checked it out y’day. Am just reading through the post again and will decide if I want to implement it, by tonight. I can’t do it at work, so it will have to wait.
Thanks for the tip.
Handa boy: you’ve had it. I’m banning your IP
August 22nd, 2004 - 09:02
You can expect my consultancy charges bill very soon.
[angry stare]