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October 11th, 2006

Spammers. Ahhh

I wouldn’t mind so much, as this blog is in its early stages
getting no comments, it’s only to be expected. Have been playing around with the functionality and getting to grips with some of the php, when one morning recently I clicked on dashboard and saw four comments awaiting moderation.
Excellent I thought.

I quickly realised the comments were spam, but wasn’t too concerned, and in a slightly naive way was thinking at least the blog is out there.
That was about two weeks ago and nearly 700 spams later.

Spam Karma 2

Karma to the rescue. I have just downloaded and installed spam karma2, had a quick glance through the settings. think I’ll leave them be for a while, see how we get on.
That was a couple of hours ago and bizarrely no spamming activity to report, maybe because I’m logged on, I don’t know, just coincidence. Updates as they occur.

booo

Update, I noticed after installing spam karma that all, absolutely all the spams my site is receiving are targeted to one post.
The post itself is just a reminder to myself to check the code generated by posts you see on some blogs. (rdf:RDF &c.) I may yet delete the post and see what happens.

Another update, have deleted the post mentioned above, just as an experiment, it’s only been an hour and twenty minutes, but as yet no spam. I’m sure this won’t stop the tirade, we’ll just have to wait and see.

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