Spam Spam Spam Spam
October 1, 2006
Bob Damn Spammers are really starting to piss me off. Over the last couple of months I have been getting at least 5 to 10 comment spams every day. I suppose it should be a little flattering that someone out there thinks that this site actually generates enough traffic that it is deemed spammable, but come on! This is getting ridiculous. Thank goodness wordpress has a pretty good comment spam filter plugin otherwise all the comments here would just be full of ads for illegal narcotics or viagra.
But what’s worse now is that some asshole out there has now decided to spoof my domain and create fake email addresses using my domain. Fuckers. I just had to delete about 30 emails from mailer daemons about undeliverable mail coming from fake email addresses from my domain. Sure 30 isn’t much, but makes you wonder about just how many emails actually went through.
This kind of crap is intolerable. How many morons out there actually would click on those links thinking that they can buy the crap in the emails anyway? Or would actually buy stocks listed in a spam message?
At least my page logs these fuckers’ ip addresses, I just wish I knew what I could do with them to get back at these jerks. It’s really a shame that Blue Frog went down because of spammers.
Blue Frog was this service where if you signed up with them and got a spam message, their service would go to the webpage listed in the spam and request that your email address be removed from their mailing lists. Now if they are in the US, they would have to comply and remove you. However, once Blue Frog went into effect, a couple of spammers got really pissed at them and starting DOS attacks against Blue Frog servers – which eventually forced them to close up shop.
Last I heard Blue Frog was working on a kind of peer to peer ad hoc network to est up shop again, but without central servers so DOS attacks wouldn’t be possible. Gawd, I hope that works out.
Filed under: Rantin' and Ravin'
