Spam attacked every day
Posted in Site Admin on January 30th, 2006 by Sacha PeterI have been waking up every day for the last three days with 50 mails in my inbox saying there are comments available for moderation. I would love for this to happen, except for the fact that they’ve been 100% spam.
On the advice of Richard, I’ve decided to give Akismet, an automatic spam filter, a shot. We’ll see if it is effective, otherwise I might resort to using some sort of Bayesian filtration or even the dreaded “enter in the characters you see in this picture” form of self-moderation.
I have also been studying the spam that has been coming in. I’m guessing that a good majority of the spam is now designed to ‘nudge’ the filters into believing that future spam is legitimate. In other words, they are trying to pollute the filters with incorrect information. The cat and mouse game continues…