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March 10th, 2005

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Spam spam spam spam…

Our comments section has a spam checker. Once your ISP is recognized as legitimate you can comment without moderation, but unknown ISPs require approval by either myself or Sir Francis Younghusband.

In the beginning, spam by authors “internet poker” and “online casino” merely said “Great site!” with a link to an online casino. But recently, the comments have been incomplete sentences rambling on about the most obscure topics imaginable. A sample:

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1. Name: internet poker
The illustrious bishop of Cambrai was of more worth than his chambermaid, and there are few of us that would hesitate to pronounce, if his palace were in flames, and the life of only one of them could

2. Name: free online poker
So, I am a bastard, and the English are bastards. But the really bad news is that you are too. My vision of Europe would be Europe of bastards for whom the question of legitimacy was a site of endless

3. Name: free online poker
It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws, or b

4. Name: texas holdem
I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

5. Name: texas holdem
The philosophic thesis that all knowledge is ultimately founded in experience has in the end led to a postulate concerning the logical clarification of any statement about nature. Such a postulate may

6. online poker
A hundred years ago there lived a philosopher named Jeremy Bentham, who was universally recognized to be a very wicked man. I remember to this day the first time that I came across his name when I was

7. Name: internet poker
Scipio used to say that he was never less idle than when he had nothing to do and never less lonely than when he was alone. An admirable sentiment, in truth, and becoming to a great and wise man.

Younghusband: ever think the “Texas holdem” spam originates from the publishing of this post?

Comments to this entry

Younghusband
March 10, 2005
5:47 pm
We were getting Texas Holdem spam way back before Bush when Evangelist. Once I submitted CA to Google and a million other SEs, we got piggyback spidered. It is for sucks, but there is really nothing we can do about it. All of the spam countermeasures are either too strict or too lenient now, so I guess we'l just ahve to wait. Either that or make all our readers register, or type in a code everytime they post, like what Nathan does at the Argus. For a user this is a bit of a pain... but if they don't mind... What do the rest of ya'll think?
Mutantfrog
March 10, 2005
7:47 pm
I use the spam karma plugin and it seems pretty reasonable to me. It catches almost all the spam, and the few times I've browsed the blacklist I didn't see any real comments that had been holed.
Younghusband
March 11, 2005
2:32 am
Spam Karma was killing lots of our comments, and many of the other WP sites I read all had to abandon it as well. Saru couldn't post the whole time I used it for some reason.