As seen on the Akismet 400 billion spam page.
Tag: spam
Quickie: 04/19/2008 12:09:18am
Over 300 message in my Gmail spam folder. A new personal record. I can’t stand it right now, but I’m going to try and hold out for 500.
Spam.la
Fight Spam, use an anonymous email address at spam.la, from DreamHost. Useful if an email address is required and you never want to receive email from a site.
Spammers Attack
Over the past week I’ve had a problem with spammers hitting my comment form hardcore both here and at 2 Hole Cards so hard it was crashing the web host server. They had to disable the sites and it looks like the spammers have moved along. Just to help out for future attacks, I’ve upgraded […]
Predicting the Future
I guess Chase bank can predict the future because I just received an email from them with the following…
Your online credit card account has high-risk activity status. We are contacting you to remind that on April 08 2006 our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account.
Hell, I don’t even have a Chase account and never had.
Stop Comment Spam and Trackback Spam
With Akismet from Automattic or more specifically Matt Mullenweg. I just purchased a Pro-blogger license for an entire year and installed the WordPress plugin on all of my blogs. I removed my other spam prevention plugins, turned off the Comment author must have a previously approved comment option in WP, and even deleted my comment spam word blacklist. That’s how confident I am in Akismet as a spam prevention service. We’ll see how it works out. I doubt I’ll regret it.
When a new comment, trackback, or pingback comes to your blog it is submitted to the Akismet web service which runs hundreds of tests on the comment and returns a thumbs up or thumbs down.
If you’re running a WordPress powered blog I suggest you give it a try and support those who are behind it. They’ve done a lot for the blogosphere over the last 2 years.
Gmail Spam
Today I received a spam email at my work address from a Gmail address for the first time. I sure hope Gmail doesn’t turn into a Hotmail or Yahoo.
Kill Spammers
An entirely new meaning to “kill spammers.”
No Spam
On February 14th, I upgraded MtDewVirus to WordPress 1.5 and on February 27th, I deactivated all spam prevention plugins. I was kind of curious how many comments, trackbacks, and pingbacks have been flagged as spam by my WP install, so I just took a look. It’s April 1st, but this is no joke…I have 10,000 spam comments sitting in my database. Ten thousand pieces of spam in a month and a half! Thanks to WordPress, not a single one was ever viewable by those of you reading MDV.
It's Working
Comment left by a spammer today… I don’t think your site is working.
Nick Momrik 