{ Thursday, December 11, 2003 }
I deleted, by hand, over 400 comment spams yesterday. I spent about three hours yesterday removing the spam, and then trying to solve the problem. I already tried installing Jay Allen's Moveable Type blacklist plug-in when it was first released. It will not install on my server. I get a server error when I try to configure it, and have not been able to fix it.
I am going to shut this site down if this continues, and, barring some technological breakthrough, it will. I don't have the time to keep purging this crap. I'm thoroughly disgusted. I'll go back to pen and paper. I will, damn it. I will.
LINK | 3:19 AM | TB
Agreed. Don't even joke about shutting off the lights, please.
tim | December 11, 2003 6:11 AMSo far the comment spam I've received has been mildly amusing, what with the vaguely threatening, ominous copy that accompanies them. But 40, let alone 400 instances, is damn frightening. I know blacklist hasn't been perfect, but it seems to have done the trick for some heavy-traffic blogs. Good luck, Caterina...
Jeff | December 11, 2003 6:39 AMCaterina, Caterina, Caterina.... Why didn't you email me with your problem as I asked people to do? I know we've never met, but I know your beau and we have about a million other friends in common.
I don't bite. Promise...
Jay Allen | December 11, 2003 8:16 AMYou might want to read this before taking any drastic measures.
http://cheerleader.yoz.com/archives/000849.html
Seven quick tips for a spam-free blog
Shut down the blog? Drastic. Why not just turn off comments? Yank the form from the template and delete mt-comments.cgi. Easy.
Don't let the bastards silence your voice.
Derek | December 11, 2003 8:46 AMAlthough I enjoy your comments section, your blog is fine without it. I'm sure you can find a solution to this.
I just want to say that I can understand how upset you feel about this.
I always compare this sort of thing to dining outside especially in Paris-
when you try to make something special "public" there will always be those people who need to attack and take advantage. The same thing happened with the Suny/Buffalo poetics list.
Hang in there, Caterina!
Nick Piombino | December 11, 2003 11:07 AMBetween the viruses, the trolls, the porn purveyors and the spammers I'm losing faith and hope in the internet. I'm trying to set up a new site with some new nameservers, and, inexplicably, the domain is getting routed to a cybersquatter's spam page. Apparently someone's found a way to hijack DNS changes.
I'm tearing out my hair.
Never in my life have I been on the receiving end of so much ill-will and malice. I know this evil is not directed specifically at *me*, but I, along with everyone else who loves this great medium, suffer in direct proportion to our involvement with it.
Thanks everyone. And Jay, I'll be in touch later today.
Caterina | December 11, 2003 11:14 AMYo yo! You didn't even ask me to get in there and see if I could fixit! (Wasn't there a pop song with the line "I have the password to you shell account"?)
We'll take care of it. And, if not, of course -- turn off comments!
Stewart | December 11, 2003 11:45 AMI recently missed several important email messages because of spam, and now I might miss caterina.net, too? So soon after I discovered it?! I hope not.
Here's a fix (requires a little coding): ask the poster to do something that is very simple for literate humans, but very difficult for any computer: read. Several sites (including the corporation where I slog my life away) deal with this problem by displaying an image containing letters and asking the poster to type the letters. Here comes the coding part: check to see if the letters match the image, if so then the post goes through, if not, it's likely a dreaded spam-bot. Commercial versions of this technique create new images with random words, but for your site, I think you could get away with one image/word: "Fake"
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Keep writing. Just shut down comments until someone comes up with a good fix.
Eeksy-Peeksy | December 11, 2003 4:29 AM