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Old May 19th, 2006, 17:19   #1
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Default Your comments are getting spammed to shit

If you check the Recent Comments on the news pages, there's some bot called "<random country> hotels" that's putting in loads of random spam trackbacks. Not sure if you log IPs for these, but you might want to block the IP/range before it gets too troublesome
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Old May 19th, 2006, 17:23   #2
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Yeah somebody mentioned our URL on spammersinternational.com forums or something, we've been getting continuous runs for a few days now. Consider it solved, thanks for reporting

I've already blocked a bunch of IP-ranges today, but if this continues we'll probably be having more severe anti-spam measures soon And I don't want to hide comments behind a login.

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Old May 19th, 2006, 17:27   #3
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Curry, to the rescue!
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Old May 19th, 2006, 22:28   #4
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Old May 19th, 2006, 22:31   #5
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My hero! (Curry, not you Aift)

I did some stuff for this site too you know, and all you people seem to care about is Curry
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Old May 19th, 2006, 22:32   #6
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Aww, you're my hero too <3 <3

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Old May 19th, 2006, 22:33   #7
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Old May 20th, 2006, 01:22   #8
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And what about the one you're dating?
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Old May 20th, 2006, 02:07   #9
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Default Re: Your comments are getting spammed to shit

Just found this on digg.com thought it might help

http://www.spamcannibal.org/cannibal.cgi

it rerouts small packetts to the spam server, over and over, there by slowing or killing the spam server.
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Old May 20th, 2006, 03:43   #10
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Yeah well I'm not at war with the spammers, they're usually just stupid guys unable to protect their system. Gives me all the more work to do though, just caught another spam run
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Old May 20th, 2006, 04:30   #11
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Old May 20th, 2006, 16:34   #12
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Bitches kept spamming with different runs every few hours, so just added some *HARD* anti-spam measures.
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Old May 20th, 2006, 20:08   #13
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spammers in the wiki get also more irritating every day. Most of them is already stopped but we keep working to block their spam.
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Old May 20th, 2006, 21:07   #14
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When the frontpage remains spam-free now, I can have a look at protecting the Wiki similarly.
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Old May 21st, 2006, 13:45   #15
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Whaha, when i read the topic title, i though you wre talking about me

nevermind..
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Old May 22nd, 2006, 04:14   #16
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Emily.

So now I am not you're hero anymore? I mean, so what we had the other night is just gone to waste, now? Okay, I see, you used me. God I wish I weren't so extremely attractive. God you women are so selfish, you use us men like we are just fresh meat. You have broken my heart.

I hope you're happy!
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Old May 22nd, 2006, 06:38   #17
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Emily.

So now I am not you're hero anymore? I mean, so what we had the other night is just gone to waste, now? Okay, I see, you used me. God I wish I weren't so extremely attractive. God you women are so selfish, you use us men like we are just fresh meat. You have broken my heart.

I hope you're happy!
You and i have been finished for quite some time. Our rendevous the other night was a one night ONLY deal, you knew that "going in" to the deal I used you, so be it, but it was pretty damn hot, no?

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Old May 23rd, 2006, 11:15   #18
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Bitches kept spamming with different runs every few hours, so just added some *HARD* anti-spam measures.
Loving myself... not a single spam run since I took these rigid steps
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Old May 23rd, 2006, 12:06   #19
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but last night some peeps complained they couldnt post as their post was identified as spam
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Old May 23rd, 2006, 12:45   #20
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but last night some peeps complained they couldnt post as their post was identified as spam
Who did and why didn't I hear about it despite the "please contact the site admins if this is not correct" line in that message?

It should only be possible to get that message if you leave an article page open for 12 hours before typing a comment.
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Old May 23rd, 2006, 12:48   #21
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Or they could be getting another message actually: we've always blocked comments from open and insecure proxies. When in doubt about that, visit this page: http://www.ipcraft.com/checkmyhost
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What's with all the contentlink spam on the frontpage. Allmost every word is highlighted with some silly spam..
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What's with all the contentlink spam on the frontpage. Allmost every word is highlighted with some silly spam..
Don't confuse advertising with spam
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Don't confuse advertising with spame
That many advertisments on a squar inch have a name.. It's spam from a can
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Old June 2nd, 2006, 02:18   #25
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Experimenting with some different ways of advertising. And erm I'm first to listen to the users as far as advertising is concerned (I'm not blocking tuns of SmileyCentral and well-paying popups and real spam ads because I hate income) but aren't you a tiny bit overreacting to exactly 2 dark red words on the whole frontpage?
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