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Follow you, follow me

2/15/2007 – 12:42 pm

Two years ago today, we released WordPress version 1.5. This was a pretty major release that introduced several new features that are still major staples of the current 2.1 branch: the Dashboard, Themes, and Pages. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogging, Microformats, Plugins, Search, Spam, WordPress | Also tagged Akismet, Google, Metadata, nofollow, PageRank, plugin, Spam, WordPress, yahoo | Comments (69)

Some blog spam cases you might want to watch for

10/27/2006 – 12:45 pm

I like to think that I’ve got some pretty decent spam prevention measure in place on my server. My mail server uses RBL/DNSBL services and sets maximum limits for certain protocol violations. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Plugins, Software, Spam, Tech, WordPress | Also tagged Akismet, Email, PHP, plugin, Plugins, Spam, SpamValve, this-site, WordPress | Comments (9)

Poisoning the well

12/6/2005 – 12:07 pm

Overall, the volume of spam attempts on my server have been down lately. Oh, I still get a steady stream, I delete over 100 comment spams (caught by my filters) each day. But I’ve seen fewer of the massive, server-squashing spam runs that hammer my web service with too many simultaneous connections, blocking out legitimate users.

On the other hand, I’m seeing a lot more attempts by spammers to poison the well. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Spam | Also tagged Akismet, Bayesian, dom, Spam | Comments (16)

Googlebomb: Popup Blockers

7/15/2005 – 1:06 pm

Has your blog been spammed with ads for a Popup Blocker for Internet Explorer?

If you are getting here through a search on Popup Blockers or for Pop-Up Blocker or Pop Up Blocker Internet Explorer, please do not buy from pop-upblocker dot org They are spammers and unethical. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, SEO, Search, Spam | Also tagged Google, SEO, Spam | Comments (14)

Spam on the rise again?

6/17/2005 – 11:48 am

Has anybody else noticed a sharp increase in blog spam activity lately over the past couple of weeks? The number of firewall rules on my system generated by SpamValve was down below 40 not too long ago, but now it’s back up to over 100 again. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Spam | Also tagged Spam, SpamValve, this-site | Comments (17)

SpamValve update

5/6/2005 – 10:13 am

I’ve been pretty busy at work, so I haven’t done much more work on my auto-firewall code in the past couple of days. But it seems to be holding its own pretty well. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Plugins, Spam, WordPress | Also tagged Blog, plugin, Spam, SpamValve, this-site, Web, WordPress | Comments (12)

Testing a new spam blocker

5/3/2005 – 5:05 pm

I’ve been trying to snatch a few minutes here and there to work on the automated spam blocking system that I proposed last week. Earlier today, I finished up one of the components, and I’m currently testing it. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Plugins, Servers, Spam, WordPress | Also tagged Perl, plugin, Spam, SpamValve, this-site, Web, WordPress | Comments (6)

Spammers should all DIE DIE DIE

4/27/2005 – 11:10 am

I am so sick of the damn spammers. Spammers are teh sux0r. Spammers are a festering boil on the ass of the Internets. I wouldn’t let a spammer kiss my butt with a pair of wax lips from ten feet away. If I ever see a spammer bleeding in a ditch, I will not be a Good Samaritan, I will kick him in the head, cover him up with dirt, and leave him there to rot.

Over the past few weeks, the comment spam has been coming in so thick that I’ve had to start blocking IPs at the firewall level. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Servers, Spam | Also tagged Email, Spam, SpamValve, this-site | Comments (42)

Blacklist Peering Plugin

2/24/2005 – 5:17 pm

Mark over at WeblogToolsCollection has come up with another great WordPress plugin for combatting blog comment spam: Blacklist Peering Plugin. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Plugins, Software, Spam, WordPress | Also tagged plugin, Spam, Web, WordPress | Comments (4)

Meme Roundup

1/21/2005 – 1:36 pm

There have been several new memes lately that I have thoughts on, but I just haven’t had the time to comment on them here. I still don’t have time to discuss them in as much depth as I’d like, but here’s a quick summary: