A wave of spam

Monday, May 22, 2006 at 7:36 | Posted in Akismet, internet, spam, Web tools, WordPress | Leave a comment

I have had this blog for less than five months. During that time the Akismet spam catcher has stopped 87 spam comments, of which only one or two have turned out to be legitimate entries in a closer scrutany. 57 of those comments were entered during the last 48 hours.

Interestingly, most of these latest spam entries were targeted to this post. It is a controversial post and it is being read almost every day. But it is by far not the most read post in this blog. That title goes without opposition to this post.

I wonder if other WordPress blogs have experienced this exceptionally high spamming activity this weekend or if it was just me. Obviously, there is a spider somewhere (oh yes, I have some of the IP’s left but I do not think I will bother to search the source) that has been busy these couple of days. It would be interesting to know how they choose the posts to attack. Could it be random or maybe they track somehow the posts that are linked much or receive a lot of hits?

I am glad to have Akismet as a part of WordPress. As I wrote here, I have been out of the web most of this weekend. Without Akismet, the blog would have been turned into a spam comment farm. And instead of writing this post, I would be manually deleting all of those 57 comments right now.

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