Comments on: Yet more (juvenile) comment spam http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2003/09/26/yet-more-juvenile-comment-spam/ Sam Newman's blog Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:50:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Luis http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2003/09/26/yet-more-juvenile-comment-spam/#comment-61 Luis Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:52:42 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/2003/09/26/yet-more-juvenile-comment-spam/#comment-61 I understand about the spamming thing. I'd recommend getting Eudora 6, which has a very nice spam-blocking feature (paid version only, $40). My account gets spammed about 40-50 times daily, but Eudora catches them pretty well--maybe one spam a week gets through, and only unusual real emails get put in the spam category, and not too often. As for login comments, I'd do that if I didn't really care about getting comments. I have to say that if I have to log in, I wouldn't comment. Sad that spammers can cause this course of events.... Good luck! I understand about the spamming thing. I’d recommend getting Eudora 6, which has a very nice spam-blocking feature (paid version only, $40). My account gets spammed about 40-50 times daily, but Eudora catches them pretty well—maybe one spam a week gets through, and only unusual real emails get put in the spam category, and not too often.

As for login comments, I’d do that if I didn’t really care about getting comments. I have to say that if I have to log in, I wouldn’t comment. Sad that spammers can cause this course of events….

Good luck!

]]> By: sam http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2003/09/26/yet-more-juvenile-comment-spam/#comment-60 sam Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:39:51 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/2003/09/26/yet-more-juvenile-comment-spam/#comment-60 Well, the email account I'm using is reapidly being spamed out of existance in anycase so I'm not too bothered. His IP is blocked now anyway, but I'm seriously thinking about implementing a simple commentor login system sometime soon... Well, the email account I’m using is reapidly being spamed out of existance in anycase so I’m not too bothered. His IP is blocked now anyway, but I’m seriously thinking about implementing a simple commentor login system sometime soon…

]]> By: Luis http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2003/09/26/yet-more-juvenile-comment-spam/#comment-59 Luis Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:30:53 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/2003/09/26/yet-more-juvenile-comment-spam/#comment-59 Mishka hit me as well, and if you do a Google search, you'll find that the pinhead is all over the place. He's apparently got a bot, and sends two comments to each blog in the span of a few minutes. His aim is to maintain links to his site from countless hapless bloggers, and as a result get ranked higher on search engines. I'm afraid you may have just made a bit of an error in emailing him back; as a spammer, he likely took your email address and added it to a directory, which he will likely not only send spam to himself, but will also sell to other spammers, who will sell to still more spammers, and so on. Hope you used a junk email account to send your message.... Best thing to do is erase his comments, or at least any links within them, and then ban his IP address from making any comments on your blog. Mishka hit me as well, and if you do a Google search, you’ll find that the pinhead is all over the place. He’s apparently got a bot, and sends two comments to each blog in the span of a few minutes. His aim is to maintain links to his site from countless hapless bloggers, and as a result get ranked higher on search engines.

I’m afraid you may have just made a bit of an error in emailing him back; as a spammer, he likely took your email address and added it to a directory, which he will likely not only send spam to himself, but will also sell to other spammers, who will sell to still more spammers, and so on. Hope you used a junk email account to send your message….

Best thing to do is erase his comments, or at least any links within them, and then ban his IP address from making any comments on your blog.

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