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Re: Advance Comment Spam
From: Imri Goldberg <lorgandon () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:15:21 +0200
Yes, I get those as well. Akismet kills most of these for me. Another possible reason is that sometimes* only the first comment by someone requires approval, and afterwards more comments from the same source are allowed. An amusing anecdote - I once wasn't sure the comments were working properly on my blog, so I tried writing some test comment. It was pretty hard writing something short that would pass Akismet. However, my test comment did end up in the suspected spam. Made me feel pretty silly. * sometimes == I don't remember if I saw it happening, I think I did, and I think I saw somewhere an option to configure it that way as well. So I'm not completely sure about that. ------------------------- Imri Goldberg www.algorithm.co.il/blogs www.imri.co.il ------------------------- Insert Signature Here ------------------------- Larry Seltzer wrote:
In the last few hours I got a couple of comments on my PCMag blog (http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/) Commenter Name: Whatever-ishere Commenter URL: http://www.whateverishere.com Comment: thanks for the GREAT post! Very useful... The first comment came from 79.140.80.79, the second from 79.140.80.53, but I'm not sure that matters. The comment is idiotic ass-kissing, even if the blog posts were good ones. We're running Sedo, which rated the comment as ham. So I looked into the URL whateverishere.com, and it's unregistered. It's my theory that they want to get a bunch of comments into the system before there's anything objectionable at the URL, then they register the site. Anyone seen this? Does my theory make sense? Larry Seltzer eWEEK.com Security Center Editor http://security.eweek.com/ http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/ Contributing Editor, PC Magazine larry.seltzer () ziffdavisenterprise com _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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