Waiting For 20, 000th Spam in 7 Days
By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News NetworkSaturday, June 3, 2006
I have been getting a deluge of spams in the last 7 days or so, 19434 spams so far in Akismet queue of this blog alone. However something very interesting happened.
Immediately after I changed my commenting policy to block comments from open / insecure proxies, my spams have gone down dramatically. When I implemented the policy change I had over 19000 spams in queue. And yet I am still waiting for my 20, 000 spam. This is very strange as I was getting way over 3000 spams daily.
My concern is whether I am blocking even legitimate comments in the process of using RBL blocking. It could also be that spammers have suddenly given up or are being blocked at the ISP level. I do not know.
What is your experience with comment spamming these days?
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February 23, 2008: 11:57 am
It turned out that I was blocking genuine comments too! I had long since removed it. |
Angsuman Chakraborty