12 items tagged with commentspam

Conversation with a comment spammer

January 22, 2007 - In which I engage a new comment spammer and find out what he thinks.

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Comments on comments

September 17, 2004 - 2000 comments and spam.

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Why IP banning is useless

February 10, 2004 - Many proposals for eliminating comment spam are focused on banning or throttling comments from the IP address of the spammer. What those proposals fail to address is that IP addresses are neither unique nor hard to come by.

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Spammer discussion

January 11, 2004 - Inside the (very small) minds of comment spammers.

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Comment Spam makes the news

November 13, 2003 - A news story on comment spam with quotes from me and others.

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Spam Talk

November 9, 2003 - I had a comment spammer’s site shut down. Apparently the spammer didn’t appreciate it.

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Cutting comment spammers off at the knees

November 7, 2003 - How to hit comment spammer’s where it hurts: in the wallet.

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Filtered Comments

October 10, 2003 - Content filtering won’t do a thing to prevent comment spam.

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Spam and Vandals, part 2

October 5, 2003 - My theories about spammers acting like graffiti artists appear to be correct.

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Spam begets spam

September 21, 2003 - If you want to reduce the flow of comment spam to your site, be vigilant in removing the ones that do get posted. Leaving them up, even for a short time, can catch the eye of more spammers.