Not Much on My Mind Right Now
I have two blogs,
my personal blog
and
my technical blog.
The technical blog is a small subset of the personal blog containing posts
that are more likely to be of interest to the techie audience at
weblogs.asp.net.
Lately, the comments in one post
at weblogs.asp.net have been repeatedly spammed with sad little gems like the
following:
If you click the links above, you'll find that I'm not the only one who's
getting this treatment. The spams are clearly generated by a bot, which is
generating links to an enormous variety of randomly chosen sites, with no
obvious commonality.
Surprisingly, I can find very few discussions of this particular
phenomenon, save Nihilist spam
and Best Comment Spam Ever.
It seems to have been the catalyst triggering
PocketNow: Requiring Registration [to Post].
My personal blog is running dasBlog, which has a
CAPTCHA implementation,
as well as some other anti-spam features.
So far, I haven't had a spam problem there, but perhaps I'm just flying
under the spammers' radar.
Brian Goldfarb recently sent
mail to all the bloggers at weblogs.asp.net, detailing forthcoming changes
and improvements (sorry, can't find a public post). There was no specific
mention of dealing with comment spam, alas.
I found the SixApart Guide to Comment Spam
to be useful, if wordy and Movable Type-centric.
They agree with Scott Mitchell on
the Worth(lessness) of CAPTCHAs.
And this summary of the problem of
Comment Spam
ain't bad.
