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This is the second comment spam I’ve seen on my site(s). When WordPress emails me about a new comment, the new spam looks like this:
Author : Gen Drebery+ACc-,+ACc-deber@gmail.com+ACc-,+ACc-+ACc-,+ACc-63.2.12.45+ACc-,+ACc-2008-01-25 23:21:20+ACc-,+ACc-2008-01-25 23:21:20+ACc-,+ACc-+ACc-,+ACc-0+ACc-,+ACc-Internet Explorer+ACc-,+ACc-comment+ACc-,+ACc-0+ACc-,+ACc-0+ACc-),(+ACc-0+ACc-, +ACc-+ACc-, (IP: 69.31.80.66 , colo-69-31-80-66.pilosoft.com)
I discovered that MT.Net‘s once-impressive Technorati Authority rating is about half what it used to be. I think this drop occured when I finally pulled the redirects that pointed the old Drupal links to my site to the new WordPress ones. Even though search engines (and others) coming to old links were told by my webserver to update their links, Technorati (at least) didn’t seem to pay attention.
I was blogging away happily from the Atlanta airport tonight when suddenly MT.Net didn’t like me anymore. I got a message from my Bad Behavior blog spam blocker flagging my IP address. Since I was coming from the airport WiFi’s gateway address, I assumed that spammers and the like may have sent spam from the airport and gotten the address blacklisted. Still, I managed to get in one post from the WiFi before it blocked me, so that didn’t seem to be the right answer.
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Here’s only a quick extract of sites set up to blog-spam everybody. If any of the sites in this list try to add a trackback to your blog you should delete the trackback: its spam.
I’ve written their hosting provider, Liquidweb. Let’s see if they bother to do anything.
I’m removing the old Drupal redirects today, the ones that make old, old, old links work. I’ve been using WordPress now for months so I figure its time.
If you don’t see new entries after September 17th, chances are you need to update your feed address. Get with the program, you lazy slugs!
[Update:] For the benefit of the extremely lazy, I’ll provide my new feed link here.
