Just remember "spam rage" is not the answer!

Here's the spam rage URL:

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,61339,00.html

I say, declare war!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/34146.html

For blogs based on Movable Type, Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/ , which will block comment spam based on the URL strings. Future version will allow p2p sharing of the blacklisted URLs. More info at: http://www.jayallen.org/comment_spam/

Here's a more pessimistic view about the comment spam problem: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/11/15/more-spam

Ok so there are two kinds of spam. E-mail and blog comment box.

The e-mail spam I take care of with my spam assassin which goes with my webhosting package.

The comment box spam is taken care of my MT-Blacklist courtesy of Jay Allen.

What do I think of spam? Well, there are shitheads in any medium. Spammers are it in the internet. Sue them? Won't waste my time. The law is an an effective solution to every problem.

If anyone wants more details (I've documented the spambot attacks in my blogs), please see them here :

http://houseonahill.net/archives/2003/11/000874.html

http://houseonahill.net/archives/2003/10/000646.html

http://houseonahill.net/archives/2003/10/000635.html

http://houseonahill.net/archives/2003/10/000629.html

The posts include links to other blogs that got hit as well as temporary measures I resorted to while waiting for Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist.

MT Blacklist is in full effect on this and several other blogs hosted here. The only problem is going to sleep at night. Then, when you wake up, there are a dozen or more posts that have been stewing for several hours, getting spidered by google, and moving you up in the search results for \/14gr4 (pardon the h4x0r, I can't stand getting hits off that dreck).