From: (Anonymous)	Date: December 23rd, 2006 06:38 am (UTC)		(Permanent Link)
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	From: dyork	Date: December 23rd, 2006 12:50 pm (UTC)		(Permanent Link)
	Ah, the sheer irony of the reply above...

(laughing) Does anyone else find it ironic that what appears to be "blog spam" attaches itself to a post I wrote about blog spam?

Now, "David", if you are real and this is a real comment, please feel free to reply back and tell me that. I apologize if I have offended you.

However, this same message is appearing in almost identical form in a number of other places on this blog and in other blogs. It looks pretty much like the type of spam that comes in where the "URL" field of the comment form is filled in with an address for some porn site, or spam site in general. The spammer leaves a message catering to the ego of the blogger with the hope that the blogger, appropriately flattered, will let the comment stand... and the URL pointing back to the spammer's web site.

One of the "good" things about LiveJournal, though, is that LiveJournal doesn't allow URLs on anonymous comments! So all spammers do is leave messages like the ones above.... their attack doesn't work on LJ.

Rather bizarre that their script would attach it to an article on blog spam, though... :-)

From: (Anonymous)	Date: December 26th, 2006 06:51 pm (UTC)		(Permanent Link)
Re: Ah, the sheer irony of the reply above...

I had to laugh, Dan... you have to treat it as a joke :)

I'm now looking for an Akismet equivalent for the iotum forums, which are built on phpBB. I just deleted 70 or 80 spammer memberships this morning, and a couple of dozen spam posts.

Alec.

	From: dyork	Date: December 29th, 2006 02:20 pm (UTC)		(Permanent Link)
	Re: Ah, the sheer irony of the reply above...

Alec,

Yes, since getting angry has little use against anonymous spammers, the only other real choice is to laugh at the silliness of it all.

I'll be interested to see what you find for phpBB forums... it really is annoying that they go to that length to insert spam into your site.

Didn't their mothers and fathers ever teach them about good manners? :-)

Dan

From: (Anonymous)	Date: January 27th, 2007 04:19 pm (UTC)		(Permanent Link)
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