Spam archive
ROKSO
2006-11-07 13:10
Link: ROKSO
The Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) database collates information and evidence on known professional spam operations that have been terminated by a minimum of 3 Internet Service Providers for spam offenses.
Why Yahoo's marriage of RSS and e-mail could be an antispam breakthrough
2005-12-03 09:44
Link: Why Yahoo's marriage of RSS and e-mail could be an antispam breakthrough
Richard Bliss once said:
What if e-mail was re-architected so that, instead the keeping e-mail on the recipient’s system prior to opening it (the way e-mail basically works today), e-mail was kept on the sender’s system?
I have mentioned something similar to people before, and they have pretty much thought I was insane, but I do truly believe that moving mail from a store-and-forward model to the store-and-get model a better one. We do need a few associated technologies, though:
- We need FOAF
- We need a publishing protocol. Atom provides that
- We need a consistent format. RSS is not — We need Atom
Brainbench and spam
2005-11-09 11:09
I once signed up for Brainbench, to take a JavaScript test. I obviously shouldn’t have done that.
Over the years, they’ve sent me all sorts of mail that I’m not interested in. Over the years, I have gotten exactly zero professional offers due to Brainbench.
Recently, I dug up my unused Brainbench login, signed off from the one mailing list I was obviously on, and sent them an e-mail, saying that I wanted to be deleted from all of their mailing lists, and that I didn’t want any more mailings from them. I even got a reply (e-mail addresses mangled):
O'Reilly joins the search engine spam parade
2005-08-22 11:33
Link: O'Reilly joins the search engine spam parade
Is it ethical to sell your Google Rank for money? Are you more entitled to it because you are O’Reilly?
My single-word-answer for both is: No!
Brute force referer spamming
2005-08-17 10:25
Over the last two days, I have been the target of some real brute-force referer spamming attempts, from IP-blocks owned by a russian co-location provider.
The current count for August 15th, and August 16th is a staggering 16189 attempts at referer spam, and they’re still at it.
My experience tells me that complaining to the provider doesn’t help, so I have added the following to .htaccess:
Deny from 85.192.40.
Deny from 85.192.41.Alternatively, if you would like for them to taste their own medicine, you can do something like this:
SetEnvIfNoCase Remote_Addr "^85.192.4(0|1).[0-9]{1,3}$" RefererSpam
RewriteCond %{ENV:RefererSpam} ^1$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %1 [R=301,L]Referer spam mirror
2005-06-17 11:17 – Seven comments
Today, I mostly block referer spammers, but I am considering letting them taste their own medicine, by way of a little mod_rewrite magic.
Wordpress Followup from Waxy.org
2005-04-02 18:22 – Leave a comment
A response from Matt
2005-04-02 14:38 – Four comments
Matt Mullenweg responds to the entire WordPress incident, and to my satisfaction, he is humble about it, apologizes and explains the whole debacle in a straightforward honest way.
Ok, I just lost any respect I may have had for Wordpress
2005-03-30 22:23 – 30 comments
Wordpress.org uses cloaking to hide spam links from human visitors, while keeping them visible for search engines.
Spam Huntress Harassed
2005-03-25 14:29 – Leave a comment
Referrer spam: rel="nofollow" doesn't work
2005-03-13 13:08 – Nine comments
Referrer spam is becoming a real problem. It hurts search engine results, and forces website owners to handle large volumes of spam traffic. Search engine vendors can fix most of this problem: Permanently.
Wikipedia: Referer spam
2005-03-13 12:30 – Leave a comment
Referer tarpit
2005-03-05 10:14 – Three comments
Referer Tarpit is a solution for slowing down referer spammers, so you can save others from spam.
MT Blacklist to mod_security
2005-02-27 23:01 – Leave a comment
Referrer Spam Redux
2005-02-16 15:06 – Leave a comment
Shameless spammer
2005-02-08 13:04 – One comment
Reffy spammer stops using his own tool
2005-02-06 20:52 – Leave a comment
Search Engine Optimizers are blog spammers
2005-01-31 21:11 – One comment
Referer spammers are comment spammers too
2005-01-16 15:44 – Nine comments
Is there a connection between referer spamming tools such as Reffy, and mass comment spamming in Movable Type?
Observation
2004-11-09 22:59 – Four comments
The .info TLD seems to be more spam-infested. To the extent that SpamAssasin actually thinks mail from this TLD is more likely to be spam
Spam and be punished
2004-11-08 14:15 – Six comments
Radisson SAS have been thrown out of Google for extensive search engine spamming, through the use of doorway pages and shadow domains.
A solution for blog spam?
2004-09-06 14:40 – Ten comments
Introducing automatic semi-moderation as a solution to blog comment spam: even if spammers get through, they will have nothing to gain from spamming.
Spammed by the "Church" of Scientology
2004-07-17 17:34 – Two comments
I have been spammed by the Norwegian branch of the "Church" of Scientology. For your reading pleasure, I'm hereby providing a rough translation and analysis of their spam.
Porn clone blogs
2003-11-20 19:31 – Two comments
Analysis and speculation on the porn clone blogs that have hit referer logs.
Morons in refererspace
2003-07-18 18:12 – Three comments
Anti-spam-company attempts mass referer spamming and fails.
Blog comment spam
2003-05-08 10:46 – Seven comments
Is blogosphere buzz a possible motivation for blog comment spammers?
MT Comment spamming
2003-03-16 10:54 – Seven comments
On the first outbreak of blog comment spam. Is blog comment spamming going to become a widespread problem?