10 days 10 000 spam
@ 1:27 pm I’m trying to do a community service and clear the spamtrap moderation queue that got a bit out of hand due to the database glitches. So yeah, theres been a few genuine messages there, some of which I’ve found, and some that have been flushed as the finger was faster than the brain. Now I am still facing about 10 000 messages in the queue, which I noticed my first one is dated 2007/10/28 and the last one 2007/10/18. So ten days worth of spam, thats like a thousand comments *a day*. Sweet Jebus on a dinosaur. No wonder people like me would like to go chop off the fingers of nimble little “electronic marketers”. The approved comments queue is riddled with spam that got through the trap, but I think the one we are using is pretty good in catching the drivel. One thing to implement would be to disable commenting on old posts, just today theres been about a hundred spam comments added to a post made 31.8.2005. It seems viagra and porn are still winning over insurance quotes and kayak passage walden… really obscure links. I used to gather real businesses and send the people extremely rude abuse back in the day you got email spam… seems futile. I still just hope a bear shits into waldens kayak. 9800 to go…
