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Tuesday 06 Dec 2011

Does anyone know

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11 Responses to “Does anyone know”

1. on 06 Dec 2011 at 8:55 am   JN
   
   

   This?

   http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Monty+Python+Spam+Song&view=detail&mid=6AE358263916A1670B4F6AE358263916A1670B4F&first=0&FORM=LKVR1

2. on 06 Dec 2011 at 8:56 am   Og
   
   

   Lol. No.

3. on 06 Dec 2011 at 10:34 am   Joanna
   
   

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   /dang, this is easy
   /runs giggling, low and serpentine

4. on 06 Dec 2011 at 11:51 am   Guy S
   
   

   “You love her with 4 more inches.”

   Not unusual any more, as far as spam goes. But found in the wife’s email, is kinda scary. *Note to self, do not sleep on tummy.*

5. on 06 Dec 2011 at 12:39 pm   Dave
   
   

   Spam is growing so much that my blog just got a first. A grammatically correct comment spam. If the guy included some indication he actually read the post, I would have let his comment see the light of day.

6. on 06 Dec 2011 at 12:50 pm   Stretch
   
   

   Spam (blue can type) sales always spike in time of financial uncertainty.
   Maybe the same thinking applies to computer spam. Spammers increasing their output to promote greater income.

7. on 06 Dec 2011 at 4:24 pm   Graumagus
   
   

   Maybe that’s where all the unemployed English majors are going: writing custom spam on an individual comment basis.

   That said, what are you using for plugins Og? I assume Akismet, I also have “AVH First Defense Against Spam” running in tandem with Akismet. I’ve had maybe 6 get through in over 25000 attempts this year alone.

8. on 06 Dec 2011 at 6:10 pm   Jenny
   
   

   On the message board I moderate — which has been inundated with spam — we added a feature that has a math puzzle in it at registration. Our spam dropped to a handful a day. Anything like this that you can add to your site will help. Apparently something like 99% of our spam was bots.

9. on 07 Dec 2011 at 10:08 am   Rivrdog
   
   

   I used to have 2-3 a month get through Typepad’s shields, now I have 3-6 per day. Most appear to originate in the UK.

   I use Kaptcha, but all these spams are evidently written individually to the blog. Almost all advertise commercial entities.

   Banning IPs doesn’t work due to most ISPs having shifting IP assignment now.

   One of them, an outfit called “montcler jackets”, is so regular, I can count on two a day from the guy. I do notice that they all seem to cluster on just a few posts, but I suspect that if I close comments on those posts, I will have to eventually close comments everywhere, and the purpose of blogging, IMHO, is to invite others’ thoughts.

10. on 07 Dec 2011 at 2:48 pm   Nathan
    
    

    I run a closed, registration confirmation required phpBB forum for a group I work with. I was getting 20-30 bogus registration attempts a day with the basic captcha included with the software. I upgraded to Google’s ReCaptcha and all those bot registrations magically disappeared…

11. on 07 Dec 2011 at 8:24 pm   Jim
    
    

    Rivrdog, find the option in your Typepad, which closes comments after 14 days. It helps.

    Jim
    Sunk New Dawn
    Galveston, TX

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