July 2004 Archives

Spammers have figured out how to leave comments on blogs. They started doing this around October of last year. Soon thereafter, a program called MT-Blacklist came out to fight it. Every time we get spammed, we add that spam to the blacklist and MT-Blacklist blocks any similar messages from then on. Bloggers are working together on this and the list has grown. Only a fraction gets through but it is annoying when it does.

Every now and again, like a few nights ago, a few new ones will get through and you'll see just how many they send. Divasaurs was blistered the other night with spam (Over 100 comments). Some of the spammers left 19 comments each. Every time a spam message gets through and leaves a comment, the original author of the entry gets an email notification that someone has commented on their entry.

The blog has been cleaned up and I apologize to all of those who received spam messages. This is a never-ending battle.