J-Soft Blog

Wednesday, June 09, 2004

Spammers are diversifying. Email spam is rampant, and as if the daily bombardment of email spam wasn't enough, spammers are branching into other media. For some time now there have been bots crawling the web leaving spam on weblogs in the form of comments. Movable Type seems to be exploited pretty heavily. I have also seen a few instances of comment spam against Reblogger users. Movable Type has created a comment spam blacklist, which performs a similar function to its email counterparts such as spamhaus, only for comment spam. Given that comment spam will undoubtedly get much worse before it gets better, I'm aiming to include support for the MT-blacklist in the next reblogger release.

Today, while perusing my server logs I came across an unusual entry. Further investigation revealed that I have fallen victim to yet another form of spam: log spam. That's right, log spam! They're even befouling server logs!
posted by Jesse at 2:17 AM #