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By: links for 2006-12-09 | blog.forret.com

links for 2006-12-09 | blog.forret.com — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 09:11:52 +0000

[...] Tres Million « Akismet There have been some big spikes in spam lately, and yesterday was the first day we processed more than 3 million comments. The spam has been coming in hard and fast, according to Six Apart’s status blog it was even the cause of Typepad downtime this mo (tags: akismet wordpress automattic spam comment) [...]

By: Drawing The Line » Blog Archive » Miserable &^%$%#@+) Spammers

Drawing The Line » Blog Archive » Miserable &*^%$%#@+)* Spammers — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:14:50 +0000

[...] Akismet which creates anti-spam software for numerous platforms has an entire blog posting of its own they’ve titled Tres Million (as in 3 million comment spams to their site in only one day) documenting how heavy the spam storm is throughout the entire Internet. [...]

By: Mark Wilson

Mark Wilson — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:05:25 +0000

I think the spammers are trying out new techniques. Poking for holes. A small % of spam always gets through – I know, because I have to delete them – and that seemingly small % remains worth it for the spammers.

The reason a % gets through is that the first pass always misses the first few hundred thousand comments, until someone marks it as spam, THEN it catches the rest.

Akismet needs to be modified to have a double-pass over comments. That way it will get the now-marked-as-spam comments on the second pass.

By: Stilgar

Stilgar — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 01:29:24 +0000

Could the massive amount of seemingly random spam be designed to overload things like Akismet? Seems to me it would be a fairly nefarious plan, grab a couple hundred thousand zombie computers, plonk down a couple billion (or at least several 100 million) random and worthless (even for the spammer) comments, and watch all the filters go down. When the filters go down you can then bring in the real comment spam (the seo stuff) and go nuts…

Just blue skying here. But i have noticed hundreds of seemingly random spam comments, stuff that would be no good for anyone. They don’t link to anything (many don’t even have links in them) and they are random letter combos, this is the only thing I could think they might be trying.

By: Save Me Akismet! • dummyspots.com

Save Me Akismet! • dummyspots.com — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 16:11:48 +0000

[...] I’ve downloaded and activated the Akismet anti-spam plugin. From their blog, looks like comment spam has been growing exponentially lately, and my ‘lil site has been getting its share. Any time I log in, I end up wasting my precious few minutes deleting spam instead of writing. [...]

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 01:58:38 +0000

I can’t praise Akismet enough. So far this weekend alone it’s caught over 3,000 spam items without letting one through. Total spam caught has now passed 81,000.

Thank you.

By: john bollwitt blog » Increase of traffic in the spam department

john bollwitt blog » Increase of traffic in the spam department — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:51:44 +0000

[...] Has anyone noticed a massive increase of internet spam[wiki] in the last few days? In my email and the comments on my sites, the numbers have spiked quite a bit. Some of the stuff got through, but even those numbers have been trailing off over the past 24 hours. Think the filters and blockers are catching on to whatever it is that is going on. I’d really like to knock down these people’s doors and throw a few haymakers. Update: Looks like I’m not the only one who noticed this. Akismet made this recent post on their blog regarding amounts of spam lately. This is a WordPress must of a plugin to run on your site, and they processed three million pieces of spam in one day last week. Tag: Website, Internet, Blogs [...]

By: Chris Harrison

Chris Harrison — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 02:45:38 +0000

My blog was hit with over 1,250 spam posts within a day, but only 5 snuck through and were stuck in moderation. I wouldn’t blog without Akismet.

By: RevG

RevG — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:12:48 +0000

Thank you thank you. Some of those were destined for my site and Akismet caught them all. I was dispairing about even being able to allow comments at all but today I changed my setting back to allowing comments thanks to Akismet. BTW I’m using a WordPress 2.0.4 install on my own host.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:32:01 +0000

And Thank You! I saw the “spam stopped by Akismet” counter on my blog jump by more than 100 in the last 24 hours. Your product has taken the frustration out of maintaining my weblog.