October 02, 2003

So You Have Comment Spam

I've been reading quite a bit on various blogs lately (here and here and here primarily) about comment spam. I noted a while back that I was getting porn comment spam.

Well, today the took it to a new level. My other site on this server, Noble Coins, has a simple order page. It's just a basic form that you submit that sends me all the information in an email. A very unsophisticated way of handling my orders, but it works.

When I got home, I opened my email to find that someone is trying to spam me via my order page. I have gotten at least 6 "orders" that are nothing but someone trying to send an HTML email via an order form in which the longest field is maybe 50 characters. And they have so much in the <head> section of the HTML that they never actually get to the body so I can't figure out what in the hell their trying to sell me (as if I'd ever buy it from them anyway!)

You would think that they would have a clue about what a formmail email looks like. You would think that they would know that trying to send HTML spam via formmail there is no way to make the HTML work, unless the recipient goes through and laborously reconstructs the HTML coding. And who is going to go through all that only to find they have a generic Viagra email and say "Oh! Generic Viagra. I got to get me some!"

The spammers are getting really, really bad. It used to be that they were just annoying. Now they're annoying, offensive (sometimes), and incompetent.

I guess it might be time to start using this to weed them out of the comments. Another thing for my to do list.

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