Nobody Ever Said You Need a Brain…

by Sean

…to be blog spammer.

Spam Karma 2 has been doing a phenomenal job taking care of all of the comment spam that comes this way. Though I’m occasionally tempted to turn it off just to get a few hundred actual comments here – would take maybe a day or two based on the reports SK2 sends me. :roll:

My contact form is another beast altogether. It’s a little home-spun thing, so nothing gets filtered. But, nothing gets publicly posted either, of course. Because It’s… A… Contact.. Form!

Not a guestbook.

Not a forum.

Just a simple little contact form. You fill it out. It sends what you posted to me as an email. I respond to the message.

Generally, I get a handful of spammers attempting to ‘comment’ via that form every week, and the futility of the exercise always amazes me. But like I said, just a handful.

But today? Today was different. Today, I found 247 spam ‘comments’ waiting in my inbox. From the same IP. Over a span of three+ hours.

It took me less than 10 seconds to select them all and delete. At least my form tied up one of those miscreants for a while. You can thank me later… ;)

  • http://churchofintegrity.blogspot.com Church of Integrity

    I just had to comment to check out your magical system…

    Good job on tieing up one of those spammers. I’ve been very fortunate on Blogger, only had 1 spam incident. I wonder how their methods rank against those WordPress plugins.

  • http://corporateflyer.net/blog/2007/05/04/down-the-catering-home-stretch/ Matt Keegan

    Wow, 247. Fortunately, one of my contact forms has yet to be discovered…yet. But, as you mentioned, you can delete everything within seconds.

    Blogger seems to have an excellent handle on spamming as suggested by the previous comment. WP is terrible without a handy plug-in to give spam a whack.

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