Comments | tacit: Eat your spam...and LIKE IT!!!

tacit

Eat your spam...and LIKE IT!!!

Mar 23, 2007 12:18

So over the past two weeks or so, this journal has been under constant attack by LiveJournal comment spammers; I've been averaging about 2-5 pieces of spam a day, mostly for penis enlargers, "herbal Viagra," and tooth whiteners, in comments to various posts.

Interestingly, all the spamvertised Web sites are hosted by the same ISP: Sago Networks, ( Read more... )

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juliana_shines March 23 2007, 18:42:27 UTC

I read something years ago about mailing other junk mail to the junkmailers in their own responce envelopes. Its a shame there isn't a way to do the same to these companies.

tacit March 25 2007, 00:13:38 UTC

Heh. I used to do that with junk mail, actually; I'd typically send back literature for the Church of the Subgenius in those postage-paid envelopes. :)

peristaltor March 24 2007, 19:36:12 UTC

I'm curious: What is LJ spam? Do they post on comments and then delete, just to send the spam to your listed mailbox?

I'm of the opinion that spam will only slow down when bodies start popping up in alleys and rivers, all with "SPAMMER" fire-branded on their foreheads. To avoid too much liability, I suppose the branding could start before the killing.

tacit March 24 2007, 20:18:57 UTC

LJ spam is spam left as anonymous comments in LiveJournal posts and other Weblog posts. It's not deleted afterward; it's just left there.

There's some benefit to the spammer in terms of exposure (the comment spam I'm seeing is always attached to some of the more popular posts I've made), but the main payoff is indirect--Google's PageRank system returns Web pages that have large numbers of links to them first. By spamming a large number of blogs, guestbooks, forums, and other similar sites with links, the spammer hopes to raise his Google ranking.

And I suspect you're right about the way to end spam...

datan0de March 24 2007, 20:24:28 UTC

Agreed, and for the record, I (and you) know a lot of people in Tampa with violent tendencies, lots of alcohol, anger to spare, and nothing left to lose.

Just sayin'...

Raises hand in anticipation... peristaltor March 24 2007, 23:44:00 UTC

Put me in coach! I hate spam as much as you if not more. Glad to see you around still. Time to get a LJ account!
Tony aka Dranged