Again with the spam ranting!

I was going over the logs today (via a lovely little graphical interface I have… the logs themselves would make you go blind if you tried to read and make sense of them) and it kinda shows what’s going on:

I’ve got 1400+ hits for the month to a page that doesn’t exist. It’s the comments page of the old blogware I was running (until I got so sick of the incredible amount of spam I got that I changed to something else). It’s been gone for a couple of months, but the spammers still have the address and are giving it their best to still fill ye olden website with their trash.

Of course, add in the ones who’ve attempted to connect to my current comments posting page and you’ve got well over 2000 attempted spams (the only people who hit the comments page as their entry page are spammers). Of those 2000 hits, a lot were successful (I’ve deleted about 1,800+ comments this month alone).

Add that all up and you get a grumpy webmaster.

And before you ask… yes, I was running blacklist software (and updated it very regularly), had several spam plug-ins installed, yadda, yadda, yadda. It appears that I was someone’s bitch for a while… trying new ways to get around the blocks. Hopefully they forget about me.

On a much brighter side… the changes I made to the way this site now processes comments, how the server reacts to referring hosts, and a few other things I did to make life harder for those rat bastards seem to be holding (for the moment). That dam could burst at any moment though.

In non spam related news.. it’s monday, it’s nearly 5 pm… and I have a cold beer waiting for me at home… so life is pretty damn good (or will be in about 8 minutes when I grab my coat and sprint for the door).