Whoa there, that’s a lot of spam…
Well, I’ve been in Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver all weekend and what do I come back to? About 150 comment/trackback spams taken care of by Spam Karma. On the one hand, I’m really glad that Spam Karma took care of them all; on the other hand, I’m wondering why the spammers suddenly decided to turn their spam engines on my blog…
Anyone know how you get onto the spammer’s lists? Or better yet, how to get off? 
August 29th, 2005 at 10:35 pm
How to get onto spammer’s lists: write a popular blog with a lot of readers who will view the spam.
How to get off of spammer’s lists: write a boring or unpopular blog.
Disclaimer: may take 3-4 months to process any changes.
August 29th, 2005 at 11:52 pm
A friendcomplained about the same on her blog, maybe a summer-end spam surge or that spammers have forgotten the laws that curtail their activities.
August 30th, 2005 at 6:14 am
if someone knew an instant fix to get you off spam lists they’d make an absolute fortune
September 5th, 2005 at 9:44 pm
The blog service I use has word verification functionality built into it’s comments area. What’s going on is spambots randomly going from blog to blog, littering “comments” areas. A word verification function would kill it. It did the trick for me. Maybe plaxo’s IT dept./blog designers could come up with that trick?
Best of luck…
September 26th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
Move to thunderbird mail client, tha already has anti-spam features builtin.
Use dspam on server side.
regards,
Marlon
mcoliveira@mrgnetwork.com.br