Spam Siege

The Crabitat has been under another very concerted siege by the spammers for a few days now. I have just had to change a few script permissions because they were managing to get through all the defenses. I'd appreciate it if any readers could try to comment on this post to make sure I only blocked the cretins and not the real people. If you cannot post a comment, shoot me an email at comments (the usual) bluecrabboulevard (dot) (the usual).

I figure real humans can figure that out.

categories Blogosphere | Gaius Sunday, 16 September , 2007

  • By terrence, Sunday, 16 September , 2007 @ 6:41 pm

    Can I do this?

  • By terrence, Sunday, 16 September , 2007 @ 6:42 pm

    yes

  • By Quilly Mammoth, Sunday, 16 September , 2007 @ 7:18 pm

    Askimet’s been gobbling them up at my site. You might try it.

  • By Gaius, Sunday, 16 September , 2007 @ 7:26 pm

    < ?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> < !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

    Already have it, QM. They are blowing right past it.

    The site is being hit - again - with a coordinated attack. This has happened before. I just turned Bad Behavior back on and had better than 500 spambots stopped in less than an hour.

  • By clifto, Sunday, 16 September , 2007 @ 8:30 pm

    I usually don’t get past the spam filters, so

    test test test

  • By Blackhawk, Sunday, 16 September , 2007 @ 8:36 pm

    (O/T)

    HEY!!! Did you and JBM have a love child I hadn’t heard of?

    http://www.barkingcrab.com/

    Man, turn my back for a couple of days…next thing you know, the penguins will be running this place.

  • By Gaius, Sunday, 16 September , 2007 @ 8:40 pm

    Clifto, I really do try to rescue real comments that get caught.

    Blackhawk - that is freaking scary.

  • By Anthony (Los Angeles), Monday, 17 September , 2007 @ 6:46 am

    I am not spam, nor do I play it on TV. :)

    (I’ve been getting a few spam comments on my blog lately, too.)

  • By Lars Walker, Monday, 17 September , 2007 @ 7:09 am

    This message is a test. In the event of a real message, tune your radio to your local Civil Defence frequency.

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