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April 8, 2006

Blogging Hell - Desperately Seeking Ideas for Putting a Spammer Out of Business

by Ferdinand T Cat

This website showed up in a Google ad today. The product is called Blog Blaster and I believe it creates comment spam.

I think it is important for all of us that this guy be stopped. Does anyone know how to proceed? We're willing to spend the $50 to verify that this software is what I think it is, but before that happens I want to know how to take him out afterward.

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat

Trackposted to Comedian Jenee, Woman Honor Thyself, Samantha Burns, Point Five, and Basil's Blog.

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Comments

Gee I do not know what to tell you. I know I had to reconfigure my software because I was getting 100's of spam trackbacks and comments. Plus most were obscene and I do not allow obsenities at my blog.

Having said that, my idea adleas to start with would be to try to find out this persons web addy. Once that is done report them to google and their webhost. If all else fails, make a legal complaing with your local police department.

Let us know how this works out for you.

Cheers,
Doll


Posted by: doll at April 8, 2006 9:16 PM

Good grief..some pple mus have way too much time on their hands!..is it for real ?


Posted by: Angel at April 9, 2006 12:25 AM

"...have Blog Blaster post your ad to thousands of blogs - your are only minutes away from receiving a steady flow of traffic to your website!"

Yup. Sounds like comment spam to me.


Posted by: FIAR at April 10, 2006 6:57 AM

Does the phrase "websites which have agreed to receive your ad" mean "websites whose owners were too stupid to require authentication of comments"?

If not, I'm curious about the type of blog owner who "agrees" to have ANY ad posted to his or her blog via "BlogBlaster" software.

I'd post about this one on my own blog...but frankly I'm a little afraid to give it the fisking it so desperately deserves - in part because I don't want any more spam than I already receive!


Posted by: The Random Yak at April 10, 2006 5:32 PM

Hum...
Before reading this I was considering buying this bblaster software to try getting a bit of traffic for my http://www.theparalegalschools.com web site, but I guess ->> I <-- would have been the target of the blast, hey? ;)

Thanks for saving me the trouble and the cash !

(If only I could find a way to program an automatic anti-spammer code reader, maybe I could doMinaaTe ZEE WHOLE WORLD muHAHhahahaHAhaha).

Oops sorry, my conservative IA module is overheating again.


Posted by: Fuzzy at September 15, 2006 11:24 AM

HTML is not allowed in comments; however, if you put in a raw URL (http://www.somewhere.com/page.html) it will automatically be converted to a link.. Also, it is likely your comment will not appear unless you refresh the page manually after posting it.

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