IMHO, this nonsense is far worse than being called by some
telemarketer during the dinner hour. It's time for a National
No-Spam List, me thinks.
Despicable peckerwads, they.
I first encountered this lame brain marketing technique last year,
but in all of the past 12 months, I've probably received no more
than 20 such spams. Now? It's through the roof.
Last night, I returned to the weblog after being away a couple of
days to discover enough comment spam to keep me at the keyboard -
locating the porn/zipcode/jewelry comments, deleting each comment
and associated post - for nearly an hour. Then there's the wasted
20 minutes here and 20 minutes there, spent Googling a solution.
Tonight? Same business, so...
Flaming, spitting bullets and otherwise furious, I went into
templates and commented out all of the comment-related 'plates. I
continued adding to the ISP Banned List, and then reconfigured
comments with no HTML. So far, so good --- for all of five
minutes.
The lunatics STILL got in. Now...they're putting their nasty ass
links in the URL window. So...back to the drawing board, I removed
the URL window from comment input and preview. It's been two hours
and I'm crossing my fingers.
Ordinarily, I'm not big on comment registration models, but after
this latest experience, I want a freaking comment condom, featuring
barbed wire and electric shock installed.
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