When reading through my log files too see how my spam filtering was performing, I realised that today I had blocked 40 spam attempts and none got through! Most of them was not actually blocked by phpSnatch, but was in fact blocked by the “max. 5 links per comment” rule.

In your face - you fucking, slimy, fat-ass, jerk-off spamming sons-o’-bitches!

phpSnatch or not, it’s nice to see, that it is actually possible to protect oneself against most of the spam. I just hope they won’t start posting X posts with 5 links in them, instead of just one huge post… But I guess I’ll just have to wait and see — and hope they don’t actually read my blog, ’cause then I’ll just have given up the secret.

Only one thing really nags me. These spam attempts seems pretty coordinated. Every attempt is made with intervals of approximately 35 minutes in waves lasting 20-22 hours. Not many of the IP addresses resolved to any valid hostnames - neither did they respond to ping probes. It’s not like I’m thinking that they are directly targetted against me, but it does appear like either a cronjob or some sort of worm.

If anybody knows something about this kind of spamming, please feel free to comment on it or email me, ’cause as you can plainly see, I’m not really that much into it, I’m just fighting to keep it off.