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Hitting the big 50k

By Owen | November 26, 2008

I’ve just noticed that I’ve just surpassed the 50,000 mark on Akismet. That’s quite a bit of unsolicited comments and this blog has been particularly busy on that front in the last couple of months. And it varies, from messages offering credit card 0% APR 15 months all the way to data center automation. Akismet [...]

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Approaching a spam milestone

By Owen | October 18, 2008

This blog seems to be getting a few hundred spam comments a day and I’ve just noticed that I’ve just superceeded 48,500 spam comments stopped by Akismet. Not that I mind spam so much nowadays; my plugins do an awfully good job in stopping them get through, but it’s still a pretty big number. Most [...]

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Spam Magnet

By Owen | September 18, 2008

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Hmm, this blog has received 500 spam comments in the last 2 days which probably indicates that this blog is getting really attractive for spammers. Don’t get me wrong, if I really want to visit insurance, fat burners and satellite internet services websites, I know exactly where to find them, [...]

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Strange spam

By Owen | August 2, 2008

I’ve been getting some really weird spam on my personal blog over the last few days. I’m used to all the spam about pharmaceuticals, treatments for acne and even adult websites, but this spam had none of that. It just consists of chunks of text which seems to be taken out of a book somewhere, [...]

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Coolsites is no more

By Owen | February 18, 2008

A long time ago, one of the components that made up The Only Network was Only Coolsites, which was intended as a link directory of cool websites which people could submit links to. How naive of me! It started off with all sorts of links, from link directories to baby sites, from Pepsi Cola to [...]

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