BLOG SPAM
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James Joyner | Monday, September 29, 2003 |
Andrew Cline is on a crusade against what he terms “blog spam,” advertisements that are placed in blog comments sections.
Using Sam Spade 1.14, I was able to track down the owner of one of the domains (phentermine-rx-store.com). I have sent an abuse complaint to the ISP from which the spam was posted. I sent e-mail to the domain owner. And I called the company’s 800 number and left a pointed message for the manager.How much of this is going on?
I will volunteer my site as a clearing house for blog spam information. Send me IP numbers, domain names, e-mail addresses, and 800 numbers of offenders. I’ll create a web page for this and keep a running tally so we can pool IP numbers for banning and other information for later, perhaps more drastic, action if needed.
About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.
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I was hit with a few of these yesterday, in fact.
Reminds me that I need to delete the durn things...
Little known fact...
If you are going to call an 800 number of someone you dislike, do it from a pay phone. A connect charge from a regular phone is usually fairly cheap. (under 35 cents)
On some 800 #'s the connect charge from a pay phone is in dollars. (sometimes like 4) That is why some 800 numbers are blocked from payphones.
It is not perfect as some 800 # plans don't do this but the majority do.
We should get a few hundred folks to call these nice people from pay phones.
Paul
I dunno, the suggested link in Andrew's comment to use that spam killer plugin just is too much. Perhaps I'd bother if I had more visitors and more spam per day.
But anyway, I believe in retributive justice. I gladly out my spammers and attempted hacks. Mostly so the attempts will be googled and others can find and see what has been going on.
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