http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/07/18/150000-comment-and-trackback-spam-hit-this-site-every-24-hours/ Geek News Central is the technical site for Geeks. We Spin tech for the common man. With a Family of Tech Shows and Content. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:38:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/07/18/150000-comment-and-trackback-spam-hit-this-site-every-24-hours/comment-page-1/#comment-2135 burglar alarm Tue, 19 Jul 2005 17:05:57 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/07/18/150000-comment-and-trackback-spam-hit-this-site-every-24-hours/#comment-2135 Whoa, now I'm actually happy about the few hundred we are getting (but we are by no means having a high profile blog). Two points: combating spam is always an arms race. we are using wordpress and combined with other measures <a href="http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/" rel="nofollow">bad behavior</a> is by far the most vicious spam fighter I've seen to date. That said, I'm sick and tired of it. Most of the spammers are having some kind of affiliate ID with the big "legitimate" sites (be it gambling or something else) encoded into the sites they spam (the sites they advertise are mostly actually portal sites with collections of links to affiliate programs of "legitimate" sites.) If complaining to the legitimate site doesn't help in tracking down that individual, isn't that site aiding in in some sort of vandalism? Aren't there some beautiful laws one could use against them? Whoa, now I’m actually happy about the few hundred we are getting (but we are by no means having a high profile blog).
Two points: combating spam is always an arms race. we are using wordpress and combined with other measures bad behavior is by far the most vicious spam fighter I’ve seen to date.
That said, I’m sick and tired of it. Most of the spammers are having some kind of affiliate ID with the big “legitimate” sites (be it gambling or something else) encoded into the sites they spam (the sites they advertise are mostly actually portal sites with collections of links to affiliate programs of “legitimate” sites.)
If complaining to the legitimate site doesn’t help in tracking down that individual, isn’t that site aiding in in some sort of vandalism? Aren’t there some beautiful laws one could use against them?

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