Digital Cowboy

Digital Cowboy
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Doh!

June 2nd, 2005

Sorry again, everyone.

I disabled almost all of my spam blocking and re-enabled email notification after I discovered that it was filtering legitimate comments. Then I proceeded to receive about 400 spam comments (with an email for each one) in the next 48 hours. At one point they were coming in faster than I could delete them. They were all advertising one domain, so I hard-blocked all comments that included that domain name.

Apparently, that blocked everyone from commenting. I just got it fixed and you can all comment again.

This spam crap is really infuriating and totally pointless. In every case of blog spam that I’ve investigated on this blog, the site they were advertising was already down when they started spamming me. They’re annoying the ^%$# out of me and taking advantage of the people they’re selling the service to at the same time. Criminals.

I don’t want to have to require registration and login or do that stupid “type the number you see in this box to post a comment” crap. I really, really don’t. I’m looking at solutions… and I’m a geek. So rest assured, I will find one.

In the meantime, please accept my apologies for all of your comments from the last 48 hours, or so, being lost forever. I can assure you that it pisses me off at least as much as it does you.

Posted in Blog & Geek junk at 11:31 PM • 12 Comments »

12 Responses to “Doh!”

  1. Thus saith Difster on June 3rd, 2005 at about 5:35 am:

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  2. Thus saith digitalcowboy on June 3rd, 2005 at about 5:49 am:

    See what I mean about the spam?

    Looks like there’s another IP I’m gonna have to ban.

  3. Thus saith Bane on June 4th, 2005 at about 2:42 am:

    Ahem…Blogger!

  4. Thus saith digitalcowboy on June 4th, 2005 at about 7:29 am:

    Blogger’s OK but rather limiting and I like to have control of the server where my data lives as well as the software that powers it.

    This blog is a diversion for me not the end goal. I originally set it up to play with Word Press and discovered accidentally that I actually enjoy blogging.

    Learning how to deal with problems like these is the real reason I’m doing this. I know that’s not the case for most.

    Also, I despise Haloscan and I’m not too fond of Blogger’s commenting function, either.

  5. Thus saith Bane on June 4th, 2005 at about 10:42 am:

    Despise away, it’s still the most prevalent commenting system on the web.

  6. Thus saith digitalcowboy on June 4th, 2005 at about 11:11 am:

    I never have been one to follow the crowd. Microsoft makes the “most prevalent” operating system, too and it blows goats. The masses are stupid and easily led by marketing weasels.

  7. Thus saith Bane on June 4th, 2005 at about 9:30 pm:

    Enjoy your spam!

  8. Thus saith Difster on June 5th, 2005 at about 4:10 am:

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  9. Thus saith Elena on June 6th, 2005 at about 9:29 am:

    Heehee–anyone see “Spamalot” win some Tonies last night?

  10. Thus saith Difster on June 6th, 2005 at about 4:27 pm:

    I want to see Spamalot one of these days. I hope it’s still around when I finally have some money.

  11. Thus saith Arielle on June 6th, 2005 at about 10:09 pm:

    Hmmm. Well, glad to finally get an explanation for why some of my comments never made it through. =) Of course, I haven’t had much time in the blogosphere recently, so haven’t even had time to comment on anything lately. =(

  12. Thus saith Difster on June 8th, 2005 at about 8:08 pm:

    Hey, where’s that post on your loser prediction?