Archive for 8 December 2005
Who the Hell Is Trying to Poison the Well?
8 December 2005 in Root | Comments (0)
Ohh, yes, after a while, they’re back: the spammers. Random IP addresses with legit links but no legit text. And they are trying to poison my spam filter, as they’ve done before:
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Gotta love it. 
The best part is the random compliment which ranges from the above to “very nice. i hope you’ll update very soon.” , “Very interesting. keep the good work!“, “I enjoyed your site so much so i have to say it to you.“. <sarcasm> Yeah, right, like I believe them — my site stinks! 
</sarcasm>
Well, to look on the bright side, I now joined the Anti-Spam Jedi Council, which more commonly is known as Akismet (mmmm… Kismet *runs to the store to buy some*). It is a unified spam filter that analyzes the input from lots of other Wordpress installations (with the plug-in installed) and filters the incoming spam based on some custom-made algorithms and agents. (Did you get that? 
) In other words, if someone else has gotten spammed by a user at IP address 192.168.1.1, then Akismet will (probably) already be blacklisting that spammer when he/she tries to spam you. Although, that attempt will probably be foiled as Akismet is installed on your Wordpress installation and it sees that the IP address is a blacklisted one from the Akismet servers.
So, thanks once again spammers for making your own life harder than ever! 
(And, yeah, while I remember it. WTF does this mean: “grass can compute circle” ? 
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