Apparently someone new (or several new someones) was busy testing some funky new blog comment spam software last week. According to Akismet (a software product used to examine and help reduce comment spam), on Tuesday, March 28 and Wednesday, March 29, blog comment spam reached its highest level ever. I don't know what their average day looks like, but at one point, they were at 100 Thousand per month, and on those two days, they had more than half a million.
BTW - more fun stuff; it seems that popular comment spam in January included the infamous V7N contest.
I love it when spam posts get spammed :P
G-Man
Wow. Here's a blast from the past...wouldn't it be logical to think that if the bill was signed in 2003 and this post was done in 2006 that it didn't have much affect?
G-Man
I read the article on the book named Internet Systems and Applications said that on December 16, 2003, President George W. Bush signed national antispam legislation called the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (Can-Spam). I hope this will relief of many spam victims.
Wow! Very nice. That number does seem a bit low tho :P Hell, I could do half a million in a day myself if I could be bothered to write a decent script to do it.
Um...I withdraw my statement for obvious reasons.
Statement withdrawn
Yeah - and we have to remember that this is only on blogs that have Akismet's software installed.