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My blog got smacked hard today with automated comment spam.
I found the host of the responsible site and reported the abuse.
I also dropped a note to the spammer, who lives in Mexico. He wrote me back saying his spam wasn't illegal and that my IP ban wouldn't work and that his ISP wouldn't disconnect him.
HostGator took his site down minutes later.
No hosting company wants to lose a customer, so I'm super impressed with these folks.
For those who don't run blogs, this may seem not to be a big deal, but blog spam is really tedious and really tough to shut down. I highly appreciate any help I can get keeping these folks off my site.
Posted by Ryan Singel at April 20, 2006 04:47 PM
Post a commentFor Movable Type? I don't recommend using Movable Type at all. :) Then again some people seem to like it for whatever reason...
Posted by: Michael Hampton at April 20, 2006 05:21 PM