Comments on: Comment spam — say no more http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14827 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: tensaibaka http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14827/comment-page-1#comment-300618 tensaibaka Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:06:23 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14827#comment-300618 Spam spam spam spam spammity spaaaam, everytime I see one of these war against spammers threads I have to watch the Monty Python Spam skit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ7YedEopp4 Spam spam spam spam spammity spaaaam,
everytime I see one of these war against spammers threads I have to watch the Monty Python Spam skit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ7YedEopp4

]]> By: cyberscan http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14827/comment-page-1#comment-299276 cyberscan Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:31:10 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14827#comment-299276 I have switched tactics in shutting down the spam advertised websites of many a people. I keep a copy of the spam and send it to the registrar of the spam advertised site. I also check to see if the name servers are hosted on a viruse-infected computer. One way to do this is to resolve the ip address of the name server and then check the host name of the nameserver. If the reverse hostname is something like cpe001.pool.dynamic.isp.net, then it is very likely a hijacked computer that is illegally being used as a nameserver. On my trophy list of domains I got suspended include, thepremiermeds.com lauhbeinorkanimal.com hotcanadatrustedpills.com hotcanadastoredrugs.com reayfireanswerlot.com simplewarmsarcame.com thousanabluwuo.com as well as many others. I work to shut down at least 3 or four domains a day that are sent in spam to my inbox. Spammers have finally gotten the message that plaza1.net is off limits, and I am in the process of teaching them not to mess with freelink.cx. If they decide to Joe Job me or do a distributed denial of service attack against me, it will backfire on them big time. After spammers have cause me so much work, I actually ENJOY shutting them down and costing them money. I spend about 10 minutes each day doing so, and it is quite satisfying. I have switched tactics in shutting down the spam advertised websites of many a people. I keep a copy of the spam and send it to the registrar of the spam advertised site. I also check to see if the name servers are hosted on a viruse-infected computer. One way to do this is to resolve the ip address of the name server and then check the host name of the nameserver. If the reverse hostname is something like cpe001.pool.dynamic.isp.net, then it is very likely a hijacked computer that is illegally being used as a nameserver.

On my trophy list of domains I got suspended include,

thepremiermeds.com
lauhbeinorkanimal.com
hotcanadatrustedpills.com
hotcanadastoredrugs.com
reayfireanswerlot.com
simplewarmsarcame.com
thousanabluwuo.com

as well as many others. I work to shut down at least 3 or four domains a day that are sent in spam to my inbox. Spammers have finally gotten the message that plaza1.net is off limits, and I am in the process of teaching them not to mess with freelink.cx. If they decide to Joe Job me or do a distributed denial of service attack against me, it will backfire on them big time. After spammers have cause me so much work, I actually ENJOY shutting them down and costing them money. I spend about 10 minutes each day doing so, and it is quite satisfying.

]]> By: Andrey http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14827/comment-page-1#comment-299203 Andrey Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:19:45 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14827#comment-299203 Jon, how about using reCaptcha? It's actually much harder to crack than Yahoo captchas and it helps digital archival of OCR-proof text. Jon, how about using reCaptcha? It’s actually much harder to crack than Yahoo captchas and it helps digital archival of OCR-proof text.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14827/comment-page-1#comment-299170 Reader's Write Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:48:53 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14827#comment-299170 "There are certain things that humans can do effortlessly that machines have immense difficulty with." Yup. Things like reading comprehension (maybe), image recognition, speech recognition (not the phone menu types...falls under reading...), etc. Although machines are massively more superior to humans in regard to things such as math, repetitive data processing, error free data collection and presentation. What it saw is what you get. “There are certain things that humans can do effortlessly that machines have immense difficulty with.”

Yup. Things like reading comprehension (maybe), image recognition, speech recognition (not the phone menu types…falls under reading…), etc. Although machines are massively more superior to humans in regard to things such as math, repetitive data processing, error free data collection and presentation. What it saw is what you get.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14827/comment-page-1#comment-298996 Reader's Write Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:41:50 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14827#comment-298996 A lot of these seem to be generated with one of those turing conversation engines or something similar to try and make the comment vaguely relevant to the article. Of course those things where never very clever - you'd tell them "Necessity is the mother of invention" and they'd ask you to tell them more about your mother. If you increased the grammatical and syntactic complexity of the article titles, you'd probably make the spam more fragmented and garbled, and easier to spot. There are certain things that humans can do effortlessly that machines have immense difficulty with. A lot of these seem to be generated with one of those turing conversation engines or something similar to try and make the comment vaguely relevant to the article. Of course those things where never very clever – you’d tell them “Necessity is the mother of invention” and they’d ask you to tell them more about your mother. If you increased the grammatical and syntactic complexity of the article titles, you’d probably make the spam more fragmented and garbled, and easier to spot. There are certain things that humans can do effortlessly that machines have immense difficulty with.

]]> By: Peter http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14827/comment-page-1#comment-298975 Peter Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:18:08 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14827#comment-298975 You have my sympathy... You have my sympathy…

]]> By: Jon http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14827/comment-page-1#comment-298940 Jon Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:20:33 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14827#comment-298940 Every hour or so ... Cheers! Every hour or so …

Cheers!

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14827/comment-page-1#comment-298921 Reader's Write Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:59:56 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14827#comment-298921 How often do you have to come through here and delete trash? How often do you have to come through here and delete trash?

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