Die, Comment Spammers! Die!
They’re not a huge annoyance, really, but they’re a constant reminder of how anti-community values have carpetbagged the Net I originally came to love in part for its playing-nice-and-building-on-the-efforts-of-others philosophy. Anyway, I don’t like comment spam, but even more, I don’t like the people who engage in it. So I did like this, from Reading & Writing: Conversation with a bottom feeder.
November 11th, 2003 at 12:41 pm
FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION.
Dear Sir,
It is my great pleasure to write this letter to you. First, I must
solicit your utmost confidentiality in this transaction by virtue of it being utterly confidential and top secret…
;)
November 12th, 2003 at 9:33 am
Do you have MT-blacklist installed?
November 12th, 2003 at 10:04 am
No, not yet. It cuts down the number of steps involved in IP-banning someone, and especially in dealing with multiple comment spams from the same IP all at once, right? I guess that’d be worth the hassle of installing it.
November 13th, 2003 at 11:04 am
http://www.jayallen.org/journey/2003/10/mtblacklist_stop_spam_now
They have a bunch of pre-banned IP’s and such