annie Posted January 24, 2005 Posted January 24, 2005 I think I found out who the blog spamming outfit responsible for most of the spam to my blog is. A set of twins living in Bulgaria: Quote
borfast Posted January 24, 2005 Posted January 24, 2005 Nice work, annie! Now comes the fun part: what are you going to do about it? (Ah! I was waiting for the right time to use that smiley!! ) Quote
annie Posted January 24, 2005 Author Posted January 24, 2005 I'm hoping for some feedback on that. What appeals most to me at the moment would be to find out what ISP they're using (guessing orbitel.bg) and complaining to them. Also, getting journalists to write about it. But, that may take some time, because I haven't actually contacted the twins, and responsible journalists will probably at least e-mail them and ask for comments. But I guess the two main advantages to me personally (the perks), would be: 1) Hopefully more attention to my plight to close down as many open proxies as possible 2) I can put spamhunter on my resume! I'm open to new challenger jobwise... Quote
Head Guru Posted January 25, 2005 Posted January 25, 2005 Annie, Do you have logs and Ip's. If so, can you get them to me and we will look at blocking them from all our servers. Quote
annie Posted January 25, 2005 Author Posted January 25, 2005 I've sent you a PM about that. But remember that IP blocking is messy, and doesn't really work. Even so, you're welcome to the logs, if they can help you in any way. Quote
annie Posted January 25, 2005 Author Posted January 25, 2005 Another thing, as I mentioned in my blog, I'm looking for someone to help me write a script that dumps everything the spammer is trying to pump into my comment script or formmail. No prettifying, no formatting. Just everything sent, and a time stamp, UA and IP in addition. And there's something you can add that gives you the IP number beyond the proxy, if it's transparent enough to give you that. I'll bait and switch the spammer with some creative .htaccess'ing, and leave the real comment script up for the rest of the world. Output either to mail or a hidden page. I'm happy I don't have to clean my blog of hundreds of comments, but sad that I don't have the evidence to send to open proxy owners etc... Plus, I've been wanting to study the way they exploit formmail for years! Quote
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