October 11, 2003

Comment spam

If you're getting hit with this junk, typically on older posts, Jay Allen expects to have an MT plug-in for it on Monday.

So far I've probably had about a dozen; I blocked a couple of IP addresses, but that's hardly the most effective way of stopping this crap, so let's all hope Jay's fix works.

Posted by Linkmeister at October 11, 2003 08:46 PM
Comments

Great. I'll looking for more info on that one. I recently had an email regarding a post that I did months ago on a little church on a mountain near us that was part of the Underground Railway. A journalist wanted to interview me. Complimentary, but of no interest to me.

Posted by: Cassie-B at October 12, 2003 03:08 AM

Cassie, that's harmless compared to the porn sites I've been getting links for. If you read the comments over at Jay's site you'll see the porn is the major complaint.

Posted by: Linkmeister at October 12, 2003 07:53 AM

woot!

Posted by: Scott at October 12, 2003 11:02 AM

This is just what I commented on at my site!!!
I am having this problem also..
I wanna correct it..toots suite!!!
The funny thing is that the present comments relate to past entries..

Posted by: toxiclabrat at October 12, 2003 11:22 AM

Wow, that Lolita bot sure does get around, huh?! I'm so glad that there's a fix on the way!

Posted by: ali at October 12, 2003 11:27 PM

Lolita and preteen on my end -- 89 from preteen alone.

Not sure we can use MT plugins, since we're on ASP.

Posted by: Scott at October 13, 2003 01:17 AM

Good luck to all the MT users out there hit by the Lolita spambot. So far it hasn't touched Haloscan, thank goodness.

Posted by: Elayne Riggs at October 13, 2003 08:34 AM

I have been reading bout this also, but so far I have been spared (keeping the fingers crossed).

Posted by: fred at October 13, 2003 01:31 PM