I just got hit with a boatload of comment spam linking to http://www.etaloninc.com/pacific-poker.html. Looks like a distributed attack by Post ID. Fucktards.
I’ve temporarily set comments to require registration. And registration has always been disabled. So no comments until further notice. Which may be never because the signal-to-noise ratio was pretty darned low without the spammers.
Tag Archive for 'spam'
Comment Spam Storm
22Mar06Spammers
07Sep04I haven’t said anything about spam in a while. I’ve stopped keeping track of my monthly intake, no longer look for false positives, and generally just don’t care. These days most of my personal mail goes to an address protected by Challenge-Response, and much of my other wanted mail has been manually whitelisted within POPFile. […]
Discrimination
11Jun04Gmail is trying to keep me down. After begging, pleading, and even placing a few low-ball bids on eBay, I finally managed to get an invite. I hoped to become tby, or bryce, or even byehl @gmail.com… but no, it’s gotta be at least six friggin’ characters.
Google is discriminating against people with short names. Quick, […]
August Spam Stats
25Sep03Total spam dropped again, to 1299, with 7 misses (99.46%). False positives lept to 36, which can partially be attributed to my laziness in reclassification after upgrading to POPFile 0.19.1. In all, 41.8% of my e-mail for August was spam.
I’m satisified with POPFile 0.19.1’s classification performance, however, it’s overall impact on my system came as […]
July Spam Stats
03Aug03Spam for the month of July plummeted to 1317. POPFile missed 13 spam messages (99.01%), and there were 17 false positives that included one personal e-mail and 13 from assorted Yahoo Groups mailing lists. In total, 39.7% of my e-mail was spam.
I believe that this is the first time that my spam intake has fallen […]
Spamotomy.com
01Aug03Spamotomy is a weblog about spam and a directory of anti-spam solutions with user reviews. They list 20 free anti-spam products and services.
Upgrading POPFile
31Jul03Today I upgraded POPFile from v0.17.5 to 0.19.1. Sticking with the same old version for eight months apparantly had me missing out on quite a few improvements. Since I started using fetchmail, I’d been bumping into an issue where mail retrieval would never time-out if my Internet connection was down. Plenty of blame to go […]
AlwaysOn Spam
25Jul03Received my first spam to a disposable e-mail address I set up for AlwaysOn Network. As it turns out, their Privacy Policy requires members to e-mail memberadmin@alwayson-network.com to opt-out from third-part disclosure.
Spambots, do your thing.
Clarification: I received spam addressed to a disposable e-mail account that I used specifically to sign up with AlwaysOn.
