I have disabled the Comments section because of some heavy spam that I have been getting today. The Comments section will be opened up in a day or two, after this has settled down.
UPDATE: I have re-opened comments to see if the Blam (Blog spam) has calmed down. Hopefully it has (or at least my banning several IPs has helped) and we can return to business as usual.
What no MT-Blacklist? Or you just tired of adding them all to the list?
Les over at Stupid Evil Bastard had 103 comment spams recently.
Posted by: Greg | January 21, 2004 at 04:20 PM
I wanted to add Blacklist, but was too stupid to figure out how it was done on TypePad. All the comment spams were obviously from the same person, but every one of them had a different IP address, so banning them may not have helped.
Posted by: Bogie | January 21, 2004 at 04:31 PM
I've only been hit by one so far. But it was a doozie. The clown put in about 35 - 40 links in one shot. All from Denmark.
Now someone will have to inform me about this "blacklist" thing. Sounds like an idea.
Posted by: Wichi Dude | January 21, 2004 at 05:03 PM
...I just got the two hits from mr. uidfnfcajb9876273yreuo bless :^)...
Posted by: billy | January 21, 2004 at 05:51 PM
Me and my big mouth. Must be a quota to be met somewhere. Afer leaving my last comment I hit my site and it had been hit again, much like billy's. E-mail address, URL and name were all made up. Even the IP address is bad. Figure that one out. Left nothing but garbage.
Still banned the IP just to be safe. And deleted the garbage.
Posted by: Wichi Dude | January 21, 2004 at 09:43 PM
Yeah, that guy that hit Billy's is the same one that hit me about 8 times (yes Billy, he hit me more after I had left the comment on your post). All of the IP addresses were different (and bad as WD noted) so I decided that the best way to fight back was turn off the comments for a time.
Posted by: Bogie | January 22, 2004 at 06:16 AM