Spam spam?
Lately my blog has been averaging around 2 or 3 pieces of comment spam a day. In a way I guess it’s a compliment; the spammers apparently think I’ve got a pretty decent Google rank. Then again, the spam comments contain exactly the same links every single time, so maybe it’s just that one putz thinks I have a pretty decent Google rank.
I get an e-mail notification every time someone posts a comment on my blog, so I can usually stay pretty well on top of things. If I’m at my PC when the notification comes in, a new spam comment dies a speedy death.
But some of them have been slipping through the cracks — sometimes when I go to delete one, I find others that have already been there a while. At first I wondered if the ISP’s mail server had been down when my blog software tried to send the notification.
And then yesterday I looked in my GMail “spam” folder, and what to my wondering eyes should appear but a bunch of comment notifications. Apparently GMail had been selecting some of the spam-comment notifications, at random, to flag as spam!
Figures, that when I want to get spam…
January 18th, 2005 at 11:58 am
They were probably flagged as spam because of the content of the spam. GMail’s spam filter is unreliable at best.
January 19th, 2005 at 7:48 am
Take a look at the solution I just rolled out. No spam for a few days now, and it seems to work pretty well.
http://distribucon.com/blog/archive/2005/01/17/423.aspx