Comments on: Frigging SPAM!!!

By: Noelle

Noelle — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 07:25:40 +0000

You should have CAPTCHA or some other add-on that screens for actual human commenters on your blog. Most spam comes from bots that automatically fill the usual form fields (name, email, website, comments) and hit submit. Word verification makes it more difficult for spam comments of this type to get through.

By: stefoodie

stefoodie — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:59:57 +0000

i have one word for you marketman — gmail:D

this is my 13th mailbox in my years in cyberspace and so far has been 99% spam-free.

and you can add keywords to your WP blog to block common ones. my spammers’ favorite phenxxxxxxx has not made it to my comments box in several months now, to my great relief. good luck!

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 07:31:01 +0000

May I suggest installing Spam Karma 2 or Akismet to ward off comment spammers?

By: sha

sha — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:50:45 +0000

my other blog gets at least 2 spams a day.. today my food blog was full of it
darn!

you cant stop the comments what is market man’s site without the audience participating?

By: HD

HD — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 09:27:13 +0000

bugsybee,

Spammers have found a way around that thing that send back the spam mail. What they do is they steal other people’s e-mail addresses.

My aunt receives tons of undeliverable mail which she said she did not send in the first place.

By: fried-neurons

fried-neurons — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 07:44:34 +0000

Ugh. Spammers. Scum of Cyber-Earth. Let’s look for a mangkukulam and torture them all voodoo style.

By: bugsybee

bugsybee — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 06:54:06 +0000

P.S. I just have to add this: “I hate spam too” but I loooove the “wonderful canned concoction of pork shoulder and ham.” It’s my number one comfort food.

By: bugsybee

bugsybee — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 06:50:54 +0000

You ARE angry! LOL. But seriously, I hate spam too so I am volunteering to look for and ship to you the “thick sugar cane” that you need to rid these spammers. I have my share of spam mail too but gmail reroutes it to a “spam folder” so I have no trouble clicking on 2 buttons at the most and deleting everything. Same thing with my yahoo account. Maybe you should consider getting a Norton (I had BIG problems with McAfee) anti-spam software if your problem is that serious although I hate spending my money just because somebody makes it his/her “bad habit of sending out all this blasted garbage.” I remember that Sassy Lawyer (or somebody else, sorry it was so long ago I forgot) used to have something to fight spam with – something that sent back the spam mail to the spammer. Maybe you can ask around about this. I think it’s high time that we all fight back!