Blogging Hell
14 entries
- It's Been One of Those Days
- Spammers Driving Me Crazy
Trackback spammers have been putting new text in the trackbacks, designed to flatter me into letting them post their stupid links on my site. Now, I like flattery, and I have always felt that flattering me is a sign of...
# At October 10, 2006 9:19 PM | Tags: blogging Peg-Eye Nate spam The Gremlin trackbacks - The eblogzone Conspiracy
Someone is trying to look as if they're as smart as basil of basil's blog, and I won't tolerate it. The culprit is an outfit called eblogzone.com. There are at least five blogs at that location, separated by category-- movies,...
# At September 6, 2006 12:14 AM | Tags: advertising blogging hijacking - Perhaps Some Unintentional Trackback Irony
All trackback spam contains an excerpt. In a real trackback, the excerpt is taken from the article sending the trackback ping. In spam trackbacks, the excerpt is an attempt to fool you into thinking you're looking at a real trackback....
# At August 14, 2006 8:14 PM | Tags: blogging humor spam trackbacks - Punkymoods Hit by a Viral Hack
Peter Keung's blog as well as the Punkymoods Site were both taken offline today as the result of a viral hack. Thankfully, both are back and only a few hours of data was lost. The viral hack is described in...
# At July 17, 2006 11:56 PM | Tags: awstats blogging computer security hackers punkymoods - Latest Events in the Blog Wars
Michelle Malkin reports that Aaron's CC came back after the latest hack, but it is gone again. In the meantime, Six Apart is back. They are officially reporting that service is degraded, but a spot check revealed that most of...
# At May 3, 2006 1:32 AM - More Fun With Comment Spam
For some unknown reason, we are being flooded with comment spam on my Monkeys and Typewriters epigram. Every morning Bruce will find around 300 comments in the junk list, all submitted within the space of a few minutes and all...
# At February 27, 2006 4:42 AM - There Are Limits to What I'll Tolerate
Sometimes legitimate commenters mis-type our annoying comment security codes, so every morning Bruce goes through all the junked comments looking for non-spam. Normally, you can tell whether a comment is legitimate or not from the commenter name, which for a...
# At February 21, 2006 4:38 AM - Just When You Thought You'd Seen Everything
We got hit today by a huge flurry of trackback spam. All of it was caught by the junk filter, but the service being advertised was something new. Instead of directing people to gambling sites, the spam was directing people...
# At February 18, 2006 7:43 AM - A Scientific Experiment
A recent study concludes that if you want more replies to your blog posts, they should be only one or two sentences long and end with a question. Do you agree? Respectfully submitted,Ferdinand T. Cat...
# At January 27, 2006 3:48 PM - Trackback Spammers Have a New Trick
The trackback spammers have a new trick. Since most anti-spam technology is based on word matching, they're disguising the words using escape codes. Consider, for example, the following string. ge capital In raw form, it looks like gibberish, but if it's...
# At January 20, 2006 2:19 PM - Using TypeKey for Movable Type Authentication
Comment spam continues to be a problem in the blogosphere. Many of us hope for the day when there's a reliable way to tell the difference between a real person and a zombie computer trying to publicize a site that...
# At January 19, 2006 8:28 PM - Stupid Spammer Tricks and The Weather Guy
As always, I am continually amazed at the combination of cleverness and rank stupidity behind spamming. The fake Rolex EMAIL spammers have begun using a technique in which they prefix each message with a personal little blurb. The idea is...
# At December 6, 2005 6:23 PM - Pong Prevention and the Mysteries of Movable Type Spam
We are all familiar with the concept of pongs, though we may not be familiar with the term. A pong is a duplicate trackback ping. It's very easy to create these things in today's environment. When you are publishing an...
# At October 24, 2005 3:09 AM
