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February 20, 2005
The spammers found me
Well, I guess I should be flattered, my blog has finally gotten the attention of the various spambots out there.
A few "spam" comments have appeared and been deleted, and about 100 spam related trackbacks appeared within the last few hours. I've deleted them all and temporarily disabled the trackback functionality of the site.
I'd been waiting to upgrade the Movable Type installation until I finished with two other web projects I'm working on, but now it seems I have to adjust the timeline a bit. So over the next couple of days I'll be updating to the newest version of Movable Type. Please don't be discouraged if the site goes down for a little while, it'll come back up after I've moved everything over and cleaned up the directories at my host.
I'm actually kinda glad this happened because I wanted to clean up the way the site was organized on the back end.
The pathetic thing is that SPAM works, it boggles me actually. That people would see a "Texas Hold'em" or "Online Casino" trackback or comment and think for half a second that it's legitimate just confirms that people are quite stupid when taken "en masse". It must work to some extent (which I find amazing) because the people doing it wouldn't go to the time and expense to create and maintain what one can only assume winds up to be a million (maybe even billion) dollar industry.
Oh well, at least I know what I'll be doing tomorrow night; rebuilding this site.
--Jason
Posted by JasonColeman at February 20, 2005 11:13 PM
