Ah, I had one setting off in my setup, so some of the spam was being moderated even though it should have been killed directly. We’ll see if that helps. If not I’ll add one another spam tester plugin – there are plenty out there. Oddly enough, this month has also show a big rise in spam to my yahoo account too, which is usually pretty good at catching nearly all of it. I wonder what algorithims changed?
At least most of the pharma spammers are gone, although now the car insurance types have come around, offering… well, whatever it is they’re offering. A chance to click on their website so the owners can have inflated statistics and sell more ads, I guess.
It’s sad. Not as sad as actual criminals, I suppose – spammers are a purely intellecual danger, and I’d far rather have 100 spammers than 1 mugger. But still sad. Must be the weather – raining yet again – getting me down.
Edit: Geez they’re dumb – and boring. It’d be nice – and would save everyone time – if the spam software writers would just respect some basic setting, maybe like a robots.txt-like setting for “No, really, I moderate comments, so don’t even bother since it’ll never get posted”. That would sure save me a few seconds now and then to spam-off all comments, and would save their botnets (or far away country sweatshop workers) time in simply skipping over any sites that had actual spam protections.
Of course shortly the real tech types would simply flip that bit on their blogs and websites without bothering to continue updating the actual anti-spam plugins. But there would be plenty of non-tech types who wouldn’t even know how to do that, leaving spammers plenty of places to, well, spam.
Edit: Darn. Every now and then I wish I could moderate a spam thru. One spammer actually says that “I found this site and became happy!”. It’s nice to know that I made some spammer’s random number generator happy enough to spit out that phrase.
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