Blog spammers still wasting their time tying to spam this unspammable blog
Sometimes people who you'd think know what they're doing are just so completely clueless that it makes me laugh! I am referring to Blog spammers; the guys in Russia, The Ukraine, Estonia and other parts of the former Soviet Union, who relentlessly pound away at their keyboards, sending comment and trackback spam messages to every MovableType blog they can locate. They must assume that most of these blogs accept these comments and blindly publish them, because they keep trying to post spam messages to MT blogs, linking back to their spamvertised websites hawking various drugs, or pornography.
Well, I for one don't allow any comments or trackbacks on my blog. It says so in plain, bold English and Russian words, at the top-right of every blog page, and in all of my blog search results pages. Look under the Google Search box, at the top right of this page, and you'll plainly see where it says:
SORRY: NO COMMENTS, NO TRACKBACKS
КОММЕНТАРИИ и TRACKBACKS ВЫКЛЮЧЕНЫ и НЕ ИЗДАНЫ!
Now, if I was wanting to spam this blog and I read that, I'd move along to an easier target and not waste my time on this one. Yet, when I read my server access logs I see that somebody keeps trying to post comments and trackbacks to specific articles in my archives (all of which get a server 403 response), then tries to search for them on the pages to which they were targeted. However, since I don't want any comments or trackbacks I have deleted the Perl files that handle them and disabled those functions in my global settings. Heck, I have even stripped out all the codes referring to trackbacks from my page templates. Even I can't post a trackback on this blog!
Since these spam comments never reach my blog, when the idiots who try to post them search for them on the target pages, nothing is found matching those spam terms. Boris the Spammer needs to get a life or find less secure targets to pester. Instead, he plugs away fruitlessly on this blog, filling my access logs with all kinds of new IP addresses for me to add to my ever-growing Russian Blocklist.
Countless webmasters are using my Russia+Exploited Servers Blocklist. Most of the IP addresses in the Russian blocklist are gathered from my own raw access logs, from stupid blog spammers who evidently can't read the English or Russian notice that I don't allow comments or trackbacks.
If you have a blog or forum that is getting scammed by Nigerians, or spammed by Russians, one or more of my .htaccess blocklists may help you get rid of these leeches. Note that they only work on Apache web servers, unless your Windows server has an isapi rewrite module installed by the company leasing the server space to you. You can use my Webmaster Contact page to hire me as a consultant to help keep scammers and spammers off your website.
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