Oh Internet

The vagaries of web traffic still serve to confuse me.

A while back I started getting some comment spam around here (where spammers insert comments into blog entries more than a few months old. How this is supposed to make them money I am not entirely sure.) It wasn’t really a big deal, rarely more than a few comments a day, and easily dealt with by maintaining a blacklist of words which were common in the messages (The message are typically non-grammatical garbage with a few recognisable phrases sprinkled over, which are easy to filter out.)

Then after a while they died out and I didn’t have any for months, which made me happy.

Recently though, they are back with a vengeance. For the last week I’ve been averaging 200-ish spams per day, which doesn’t make me so happy. Luckily they’re still pretty easy to deal with - 1 or 2 extra phrases on the filter gets rid of almost all of them. The purpose of this post, then, is to let you know that if you post a comment around here with any of the following words on them, you’re shit out of luck:

casino
loan
ringtone
shoes
foreign exchange
prozac
forex
soma
diet-pills
adipex
levitra
phentermine
ionamin
poker
pills
stop smoking
gay marriage
tamiflu
How it goes?
insurance
mortgage
hotel
card

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