comment spammers beware
I am devoting the rest of my waking life to tracking down and maiming the person who keeps spamming my comments with ads.
I have already banned eleven IPs. This guy seems to be working with a team.
Do you hear me, asswipe? I will find you. And, as has become my standard, I trail you, follow you home, piss in your garden and barbecue your cat for dinner. And that's just for starters.
If that fails, I'll just put a hex on you.
UPDATE: These are the IPs I've banned just today. Commit them to memory, bloggers.
212.179.192.76, 80.14.97.44, 68.211.236.172, 68.153.65.193, 80.50.242.152,
166.180.133.53, 66.75.80.169, 63.155.192.3, 24.184.91.227, 216.145.86.238
61.181.5.155
Just added: 208.147.1.4
Comments
Please do post those addresses so that others may preemptivly do so.
Posted by: Kevin | September 27, 2003 07:43 PM
I tried doing them from memory, but I'm numerically dyslexic. Oops, I think I just banned the State Department's Foggy Bottom Proxy server. Oh, wait, thats not an oops.
Posted by: Wind Rider | September 27, 2003 08:01 PM
To me these bowlfloaters are just the same as telemarketers... or DU.
Posted by: alfredo stroessner | September 27, 2003 08:17 PM
You can try tracking them down via http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl
The first two are from Amsterdam, third is BellSouth in Atlanta, etc.
Posted by: Matt Bruce | September 27, 2003 08:25 PM
Aw, Michele - be nice. The cat didn't do anything. :)
hln
Posted by: hln | September 27, 2003 08:30 PM
I've only just started getting hit with these commentbots myself. What's weird is that they cluster around a single post, often, dumping piles of gunk into the comments over a period of hours using a wide list of IPs.
I wish I'd kept a list of the IPs I'd banned. I know for certain I'm going to publish them in the future!
Posted by: Mac | September 27, 2003 09:33 PM
I got 2 yesterday, on 2 completely seperate blogs, (one one my domain, one not) from the same person...first time in over 4 years thats happened...
thank you for the list!
Posted by: Redeagle | September 27, 2003 09:40 PM
Yowie, yow, yow.
Posted by: Aaron | September 27, 2003 10:10 PM
I got my first comments spam just a couple days ago. Very messed up.
And do they actually think they're going to get hits by doing that? It only pisses people off.
Posted by: Sunidesus | September 27, 2003 10:47 PM
Michele, I'm breaking my "I will not comment" rule, but this might help your sanity:
http://weblog.burningbird.net/fires/000638.htm
Posted by: Scott | September 27, 2003 10:51 PM
SO THATS WHY IT IS SO HARD TO HIT THE MEGA JACKPOT, ALL THOSE NUMBERS!! BUT YOU SEEM TO HAVE THEM ALL!!
Posted by: Lewis | September 28, 2003 01:03 AM
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Posted by: Rachel | September 28, 2003 01:24 AM
Wow. This is my first visit to your site, thru another one, and you have made a lasting impression with this entry... lol... remind me never to let my cat near your barbecque, err I mean website.
: )
Posted by: Ro | September 28, 2003 02:05 AM
Ooooh! Yeah. Please! I want a bigger penis NOW!
I only buy stuff from truly top of the line irritating sales people.
As If!
Posted by: Bruce | September 28, 2003 02:11 AM
Totally OT,but it warmed the cockles of my heart today to hear that Donald O'Connor,on his deathbed ,said"I would like to thank the academy for the lifetime achievement award that I will receive,eventually" Amen and Hellelulah.RIP Mr Laugh.
Posted by: mbruce | September 28, 2003 02:25 AM
Thanks for the IPs. I was hit by another one (66.111.50.170) with a notation at the end of the comment: "If you find this entry inappropriate please remove it from your database!"
How nice of the spammer to say that! :p
FYI, check out this MT hack for killing comment spam. I plan on implementing it this week, and I hope I never have to see comment spam about penis enlargement or viagra again!
Posted by: Mariann | September 28, 2003 08:50 AM
If there's going to be shameless advertising on blogs, it had better be with the Blogads engine! ;)
Posted by: Laurence Simon | September 28, 2003 09:34 AM
Michelle -
I'm starting to get hit myself, and went looking for a MT-plugin based solution. Jay Allen appears to have done some significant work on the problem here:
http://www.jayallen.org/journey/2003/09/killing_comment_spam_dead
I have not tried his solution yet, but it looks pretty viable...
-NZB
Posted by: N.Z. Bear | September 28, 2003 10:24 AM
Mariann - I got that same spam from the same IP (66.111.50.170). To add insult to... well, insult, that IP belongs to my hosting provider. I'll be sending them an email, but I don't know if they'll do anything. (They used to be very good on this, but since they got bought by a larger company their service has gone downhill.)
Posted by: Pixy Misa | September 28, 2003 10:24 AM
There were two reasons I didn't allow comments on my blogs. 1. Ass-hat flamers. 2. Spammers.
All too often the offenders are on a dynamic ip address so blocking is useless. The only real solution is to require registration before posting. Unforutnately, this will discourage a lot of people from commenting (maybe that isn't a bad thing). Also, the most persistent jerks will simply create a throwaway account on yahoo or hotmail and continue to be a thorn in your side. The easy solution is to disallow registration with any of the freebie email services. There are a LOT of throwaway services, so it might take a while to build up a reasonably good database.
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Posted by: Steve | December 11, 2003 01:22 AM
Nice Journal.. Just checkin you out.. Peace!
Posted by: Rob | January 10, 2004 04:25 AM
There's nothing to gain and nothing to lose.
Posted by: Jones Janice | March 15, 2004 04:02 PM
Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
Posted by: AuCoin Kelly | May 19, 2004 08:12 AM
Maybe take one home overnight and then bring it back citing issues with the other pets?
Posted by: Google | November 10, 2004 04:32 PM