Hey, Spambots!

Posted in Red Whine on October 21, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (5)

Quickly, over here: bob@y4569o.com

Got it? Good. Feel free to send him loads of his own medicine. I mean, really, after all, if you can't take it you shouldn't be dishing it out, now should you?

Is there a way to block this loser from spamming my site via his e-mail? If so, please tell me how? Because the bastard spams me daily, but from different IP addresses, so I end up having to blacklist all of them individually, and it takes up sooo much time. I know that she has the same problem, so all advice to us will be greatly appreciated, thanks.

5 Comments

martha said:

The spammer on my site now has two email addresses... I've got all his (just assuming a he) comments awaiting moderation by setting up the key words that mean a comment goes into moderation. Tomorrow I'll be setting up a script (well, I hope to) that will allow me to mass delete (because that's my biggest pain).

Ugh, so sorry you're getting hit too...

October 21, 2004 8:19 AM

Ms. Pants said:

Honey, it's not a real email address. I'll block "bob" in your spam list so no one by the name of "bob" can comment.

October 21, 2004 9:56 AM

amy said:

If you use mt blacklist add this (minus the words modern and princess):

\bbmodernob@y[^\s.]princess+o\.com

It will block all of the ariations of his email address and thereby blocking all of his comments.

I had the same problem, and trust me, this works!

October 21, 2004 6:22 PM

mice said:

this person also uses the email top@*****

October 21, 2004 8:04 PM

LT said:

ugh. that same address comes to my site about forty times a day.

October 24, 2004 10:39 AM

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