I am a spam magnet today. What gives?
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August 18th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Me, too! They’ve all been spamming the same post so I just turned off comments on that post….
August 18th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Not me. Every comment is on a different post! Driving me crazy!!
August 18th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Please visit my web page http://www.visitme.com - and while you are there, congratulations on winning the eurolottery.
Oh yes - my name is Mr Obonga Monga from Nigeria and my client died and left $50,000,000 which I want to give to you.
Just kidding
There is a whole new wave of spam coming in - some filters are up to date, some are not.
Really frustrating…
You have my sympathy..
August 18th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
WooHoo! I got my first spam on SquidTop today!
Ok, not that exciting…it wasn’t even entertaining spam, just random words and links.
August 18th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Hang tight, folks…sorry about this. We’re working on rolling out SquidTop 2.0 here pretty soon which will have an actual spam system in place that works, among other goodies.
Hold on a little longer, please…
August 19th, 2008 at 6:28 am
Very funny, Tony! But you need to catch up with the new wave of spam, which is a bunch of random $10 words with some links thrown in. Why does anyone think that’s going to get through?
August 19th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Haven’t seen those lately Susan, but the dictionary spam isn’t new, comes in phases, but not seen any in months. On my main email accounts with POWWEB (my web site host) I have been really pleased with their spam filters - it looks like they catch 95% of the spam I receive, and rarely trap genuine messages. I know everyone isn’t that lucky.
It’s very frustrating isn’t it!
Main thing to know is that replying to spam is the worst thing you can do. Often the address it is pretending to come from is fake, or a real address but not where it originated. So you either waste your time replying to someone who didn’t spam you, or the message gets rejected because it went to an invalid address, or worse still, your reply tells the spammers that your address is real and active - and then they know to send you more spam…
Best to just delete it, adjust your filters if you can, and be patient. It will die down…
August 19th, 2008 at 11:49 am
I’ve been getting a lot of spam too - here on squidtop. Luckily they were all caught in the spam filter
August 20th, 2008 at 8:28 am
Yes, that’s what I meant. Here on SquidTop. I don’t see it anywhere else because my email accounts have lovely protections. But they’re hitting SquidTop hard right now.
August 20th, 2008 at 8:59 am
Maybe that’s why it’s been suffering this morning. Only just got in and I can’t always get a page to load.
August 20th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Glad to know that it isn’t just me. I’ve been getting a lot of spam comments for almost a week now.
August 20th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Oops!! Julie, darling. I think I accidentally hit the spam button for your comment. Geez.
Just having spam issues here at SquidTop. I have very stringent guards up everywhere else.
August 20th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Spam? You mean like unstrangled recollective jovite desulphurize polymer spinaceous hemangiomatosis residue?
I just had to deal with a whole mess of ridiculous spam comments like that. I hate spam.
August 20th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Aha! I think we found our culprit.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
No! The defoliated bewhiskered sniggled hatpin made me do it!