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August 20, 2003

Comments Spam

If you're running a MovableType blog, you might want to ban this IP number: 61.181.5.80. I spotted a comment over at 37Signals pointing to about 20 porn and casino web sites. Two minutes later I saw that the same guy (possibly a bot) had hit two of my posts as well. Interestingly enough, the posts that are being spammed are not recent but rather ones from several weeks ago (ranging from 11 to 14 posts back).

Posted by Cameron Barrett at August 20, 2003 09:00 PM
Comments

I'm sure he's found some pages of yours that Google's already indexed and he wants some PageRank. Freakin' Google whores...


Posted by: Bill Brown at August 21, 2003 09:29 AM

another oddity with comment spamming is anyone i've ever seen who linked to a particular site that has a listing of america names in chinese characters. i started banning IPs and i noticed several other sites with links to the same site got spammed.


Posted by: kim at August 25, 2003 12:26 PM