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October 6, 2007 10:00 AM
F'in Spam
The "sohbet" spam is back, somehow penetrating our defenses and wasting half my morning fighting brush fires. I may turn comments off for a while, sorry. Back at it soon. Does anyone know anything about this sohbet spam?
- Posted by John Battelle on October 6, 2007 10:00 AM
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Two options:
(1) Simply bypass MT and use your web server (Apache) to ban it the IP addresses, or limit the requests able to be made at any one time.
(2) Use a CAPTCHA rather than your current solution.
"Sohbet" means "chat" in Turkish. I was talking to someone about Turkish spam this past week. You see a lot of old-school stuff in that market that you don't see in a lot of other languages. "Toplists" are really common, for example.
Polish seems to currently be hot in the running, too.
It *is* a niusance. Maybe publishing the precise date and IP address could help organizations that fight spam "capture" such people (?) -- and/or if these people knew that they are running a risk of being identified and/or prosecuted, that might be a good deterrent (and it would less tax people who are not doing anything wrong).
I get their spam all the time too. Seems like they use actual humans to post their spam so there's really no defense. I've tried banning their IP addresses but they always use different ones. I am not sure which more evil: Kim Il Jong or Sohbet.
Never turn comments off under any circumstances.
The comments on this blog and oReilly's are some of the most erudite on the social Web.
The comments are just as valuable as the posts - in fact they add an extra dimension and new perspectives because of the quality of the readership.
how about "enlisting" the readership to help out by flagging it? I'm not talking about the readers deciding what gets posted or not, but just to help out.
Also: I find it noteworthy that this blog -- being about conversations and all that jazz -- does not have the quintessential "community thing": a login (note that SearchMob seems to have a different focus, so I'm not counting that). Would that help -- only being able to post as a "member" -- with the "risk" of having your membership revoked if you start spamming or something like that?
My gut feeling is that this would be very effective.
Agree with Norbert (nmw) above. A simple registration process may be able to help -- and a way to tag spam.
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