December 26th, 2006
Spam Karma
Those of you writing blogs should beware the ever-rising flood of comment-spam. I used to get it on this blog – around 10-20 a day – but the last few months it’s been quiet. Then yesterday (Christmas, surely no coincidence) I got hit by over 1000 comment spams in a 24 hour period. With spam levels now running at around 80% of all email traffic, botnets of comprised computers rentable to spammers for as little as $50 per week for a few thousand machines, and a complete lack of will or ability by governments to get tough on the spammers & tackle the problem… it can only get worse next year.
For Wordpress users I highly recommend the free plug-in Spam Karma 2 which managed to stop every single one of them automatically.
