Up until now, I've been rather lucky with spam. I've not had any comment spam (yet!) nor do I get much email spam, and what I do get is handled nicely by my filters.
...I didn't mention my contact forms though, did I? No... the ones on this main site are fine for the moment, but my design site's just been hit HARD (the same script is used on both sites). Some bot went through every single page and spammed the contact form like crazy. I edited the form script (Dodosmail) really thoroughly to stop this kind of thing happening, specifying pages the form had to come from, variables that had to match a list etc. Banning the IP the form came from is just about as useful as replying back to the address that "sent" those forms telling them I don't want their services or whatever since they change every single time and are probably fake anyway.
I'm sick of it. I don't want to have to take the form down but I might have to since it's being abused so much. Grrr argh bah stuff. Spam bots suck.
Louise
1/11/2005 at 11:47
Dodosmail? Oh my! I use that one all the time. :( Never had a problem with it. Perhaps there could be an updated version?
Amelie
1/11/2005 at 13:29
Yeah there is, I'm using the most up-to-date version but it seems the spammers have got around it. :\ I banned some IPs and I haven't had anything since those ones, hopefully it'll stay that way. ;)
Jamie
2/11/2005 at 4:12
Eww spammers suck. That stuff should be illegal I tell you. It's so insane the measures we have to go through to stop spammers.. its a pain!
Adastra
2/11/2005 at 6:46
My blog is being hauted by spam too lately :( Really sucks. I'll never ever see the point of this weird spam shit. Why do people waste time on building spam bots or something?
Jenny
11/11/2005 at 23:53
I hate spam too (duh)! I've been very lucky in the email / blog comments / contact form department, but I get TONS of referrer spam—like hundreds of bogus referral entries in my site stats each day from spammy sites. Really stupid on their part—I'm the only person who sees those, so it can't possibly help their site ranking or get them any traffic... It just bugs me that there's really nothing I can do about it.