Comments on: The growth of spam and vigilantism on the Internet

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:04:52 +0000

I use AKismet on Drupal. I lasted 20 days with 0 spam until I had 1,500 on one day. Now I’m up to 9,000 in 9 days. What is going on!?

By: Upgraded to Bad Behavior 2.0.7 at Aral Balkan

Upgraded to Bad Behavior 2.0.7 at Aral Balkan — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:29:15 +0000

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By: Akismet update at Aral Balkan

Akismet update at Aral Balkan — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:04:24 +0000

[...] See my earlier post on The growth of spam and vigilantism on the Internet for more information on both tools. [...]

By: BitTubeBlog » Blog Archive » Finally Something Worthwhile from Spam

BitTubeBlog » Blog Archive » Finally Something Worthwhile from Spam — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:52:28 +0000

[...] Following on from Aral’s post regarding the amount of spam currently clogging the arteries of the Internet its nice to find a site that is doing something worthwhile with it all. The concept is to re-cycle Spam into computer generated Art. It also just happens to be a cool way of showing off some of the new tricks Flash 8 can do . [...]

By: Steven Chappel

Steven Chappel — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 07:04:28 +0000

Somebody coming to your house is like the worst nightmare coming true. I never wanted that to happen in my life. Same is the case on the internet when unwanted people come and disturb you.

By: zeflasher

zeflasher — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 22:52:04 +0000

Just read the Keith comment. I think I’m talking about the same tool…
Was pretty good and I was so pleased to be part of this community who was spamming the spammer :) :)

By: zeflasher

zeflasher — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 22:49:23 +0000

Yup… You are right. But tell me why politician will move for something they don’t care. This stuff is not about money ( as the mp3 – big deal in france ) so I guess we will not see any law for that soon. Maybe we should spam the political guys with real emails… Saying something…
This is what I have everyday in my email box… 10000 of them in a day repeated several day could maybe make them thinking … :)

Otherwise I remember a tool ( can’t remember the name ) on the internet who was spaming the spammer. This one has been closed for LEGAL reason… WTF ???

So I just closed my windows, double-locked my door, bought 2 big and bad dogs and pray that noone wil go in my house…

Cheers

By: LEE

LEE — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:59:59 +0000

———-YOU’VE WON————
*******CLICK HERE ********
–FREE ENLARGEMENT CREAM–

hehe, j/k. Is that the sort of spam you’re talking about? It’s annoying! I’m with you Aral. That story about Blue Frog is amazing, except for the ending…spammers have gotten way out of control. The Web 2.0 needs an anti-spam task force. Basically a virtual John Wayne.

By: Folkert

Folkert — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:11:46 +0000

ahum, last reply his first line should be:

Those people are THE people trickering bots, while the bots then take over…

By: Folkert

Folkert — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:10:08 +0000

Those people are not people who tricker bots. Bots who are possible cause most of us customers leave our doors widw open.
Thats a thing our law (and i think worldwide) is not capable to put into freaking laws to make those bastards dissapear of the face of this planet.
We (most of the costumers) are too blind and those bots are just looking for those holes.
Like not updated windows machines for example, like no enxrypted mail adresses pumped online, so there to grasp.
We could do a lot to keep those ….. out. It’s like changing the lock on you house, change the mail or reroute it.
For the blog, akimet and spamkarma together makes it a few clicks to get rid of all those who slipped through. Furthermore, don’t enable trackbacks and comments on older posts, just do a query or better a cron job to make sure every post older then specific date gets his comment and trackbacks disabled.
And keep the list of sites you want to notify on new posts, as minimal as possible.