because not enough websites start with the letter “Z”
Posted in nerdliness on Jan 19th, 2005
Thanks to Google, MSN, and Yahoo, there’s a new tool to fight comment and referer spam: the no follow tag.
MovableType already has a plugin that works simply by dropping it in place.
To celebrate I have uncommented the comment link, and open comments for this posting. I realize that spam will continue for a time, but [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Jan 5th, 2005
Recently I added a beefed up htaccess file to my site to give me another tool to fight the pond scum defacing it with referer spam. Initially it was a few lines of code borrowed from examples I found.
In less than a month it has grown significantly. There are over 100 Rewrite conditions to display [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Dec 9th, 2004
With the help of this Spywareinfo article about referer spam, and Joe Maller’s blacklist I have hopefully put an end to the increasing number of referer spam my site and my wife’s site experience everyday.
The Spywareinfo article explains it all much better than I could. I would only add the suggestion to backup any .htaccess [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Nov 24th, 2004
Dear Spammer(s),
Okay. You win this round. I’ve been forced to remove comments from my sites because I am sick and tired of spending an increasing amount of time everyday removing your vile spew from my site. So now no one can comment here at all.
Fuck you very much.
However, all is not lost. I’m in the [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Apr 3rd, 2004
The family of web sites that I maintain have been updated with Jay Allen’s excellent MT-Blacklist plugin. While I haven’t suffered from the flood of comment spam other sites have dealt with, I am getting more and more junk in my blogs comments. Now I can spend my time on other things besides deleting spam [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Mar 2nd, 2004
Here is a snap shot of the spam (and real mail) I’ve received since February 1, 2004. On the one hand I’m extremely pleased with SpamSieve and it’s accuracy rate. On the other hand I am somewhat overwhelmed that 95% of the mail I get is spam.
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 14th, 2004
For some time now I have been using the excellent referer logging tool, Refer from Textism. It’s pure vanity and ego gratification served up in HTML.
It is also, it appears, a new place for the scum that are spam purveyors to ply their, ah, trade. I have been getting increasing amounts of “referrals” from adult [...]
