Lately it feels like I've been innundated by spam. Every single e-mail account I have has seen an increase in spam, the blog's been getting an upswing in trackback and comment spam ... I can't seem to get away from it. I don't know it it's just a seasonal thing or if the change is permanant. I'm hoping for the former, because if not then I'm going to have to take some steps to get things back to a manageable level again.
One particularly annoying event that happened in the last 48 hours is that some jerk sent me a virus. Although between Thunderbird and Norton, the virus didn't infect my computer, the act of cleaning the virus out of my in-box blew away all the rest of the e-mail in my in-box, including a number of communications from friends that I needed to reply to.
In short, spammers suck.
Comments (3)
Mm, yes they do suck...
"I'm hoping for the former, because if not then I'm going to have to take some steps to get things back to a manageable level again."
Does this mean closing down the comments section...? I hope not. But do what you have to to stay sane.
Posted by Sour Duck | January 8, 2006 5:58 PM
I have strong feelings about comment-less blogs and won't close them down entirely unless things got really unbearable.
No, I was thinking more along the lines of redirecting all of my mailing list activity to gmail. A lot of the spam I get is due to the fact that I run or moderate some Yahoo! groups, and those e-mails will now go to a webmail interface to help defang any potential unwelcome visitors.
Posted by fiat lux | January 8, 2006 9:03 PM
Hi, you don't me. Found you blog via The Big Picture.
Anyway, just wanted to let you know that I've seen a huge uptick in spam over the past two weeks as well, but it's been on accounts that have nothing to do with my blog.
Posted by seamus | January 12, 2006 2:26 PM