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| Fred, you’re not the only one who’s had trolls |
| 2004-03-11 |
| So did Bloviating Inanities: ------- Jeebus! This happen to anyone else? Over at another site I post on, Bloviating Inanities, I just witnessed the most annoying and amazing thing I’ve seen in a while. A two month old post got targetted by a comment spammer. Not once, not twice, but almost 50 times. In four seperate waves. Using, at final count, four different IP addresses. Been seeing an upsurge in onesie/twosie comment spams for a few weeks, spread over different posts, but this was unreal! Here’s the wierd part - the third and forth waves began immediately after I banned the previous IPs. And the fourth wave of three spams came in AFTER the comments were disabled on the target post, and it was rebuilt. I finally had to manually delete the target post to get it to stop. (Or apparently stop - things have been quiet for 30 minutes now) It almost seemed like someone was manually directing the effort...or that the auto poster in use was extremely agile. I considered that the last few incomings were simply mail lags, but, the turn time from the site for comments has usually been under 5 minutes, and these streamed in a full 30 minutes AFTER I shutdown the comments and rebuilt the entry. And the third and fourth waves seem to have triggered when I bbanned the initial two IPs, and posted the WHOIS printout for the originating site. Annoying as all getout. And spooky. -- Just thought you’d like to know. |
| Posted by:Anonymous2U |