Imagine my best Gomer Pyle immitation:
"surpise, Surprise, SURPRISE!"
Actually, not much of a surprise. I suspect it was people 'nibbling back' the url until they found an email address and then voiced concerns ... unless ...
... now none of you used wGet, Lynx or Curl for evil instead of good, did you? If you did, drop me a line and we'll arrange an online hand-slapping.
James, you may be right ...
... and I also noticed a coupla syntax errors in my example:
wget -r -nd --cache=off --cookies=off --proxy=off --delete-after --user-agent=BYTEME http://<SPAMURL>
As for me ... I'm resisting this tempation, and am instead implementing a solution based upon that suggested in an earlier comment at ... http://weblog.burningbird.net/fires/000638.htm
I'm adding a few tags and hacked my .../mt/lib/MT/Apps/comments.pm to keep a simple list of domains posting ... more than "x" amount in "n" minutes will block the post ... and I'm debating the automagic update of my .htaccess file.
All stuff I'll probably toss in favor of Jay Allen's eventual approach.
Though expect me to post an article on my own blog next week on the simple use of regular expressions to block blog posts that include 'certain words and key phrases.'
First, let me apologize for leaving a similar message so many times on your blog. Cheeze-wiz, the day we all get hammered with comment spam, I decide to get excessive. Massive mea culprits.
On a technical note, and this is not to temp anyone, what they are doing is similar to someone in the Windows world installing wGet ( http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html ) ... or even the GNU Utilities for Win32 ( http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ) which includes wGet ... then writing a simple MS-DOS/Batch routine that would run something like ...
top:
wget -r -nd --cache=on/off --cookies=off --proxy=on/off --delete-after --user-agent=SPAMNOMORE http://
goto top
And then everyone running multiple instances of this on the same day at the same time. Which has the sum effect of being a distributed denial of service attack ... something that is illegal, which is why I am tempted, but would never do this.
I wish I could find out who these slimey 'bastages' are ...
... I came home from church to find 32 such messages ...
I know I said this recently in another comment on your blog (sorry repeating myself) ... but sometimes I wish I weren't so straight-laced. Otherwise I might consider a solution I learned on slashdot recently:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=77014&threshold=-1&commentsort=3&tid=111&mode=thread&cid=6855944
Instead, I'm just resigned to volunteer and to help Jay test his application on an older version of MT.
Sometimes I wish I weren't so straight-laced. Otherwise I might consider a solution I learned on slashdot recently:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=77014&threshold=-1&commentsort=3&tid=111&mode=thread&cid=6855944
Instead, I'll just volunteer to help Jay test his application on an older version of MT.
I'm so mad. I come home from church just to find myself hammered with 32 messages.
I swear, sometimes I wish we'd all agree on a date and time to use wGet the same way some slashdotter's did .. http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=77014&threshold=-1&commentsort=3&tid=111&mode=thread&cid=6855944 ... but then we would be stooping to their level.
Instead, after Jay gives us a solution, I volunteer to set up a blog where we can try some new and creative ways of beating the tool ... then fixing it ... staying one step ahead of the perps.
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