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[dr_phil_physics]

Idiots and Bastards

Recently discovered that one of my LJ entries, where I'd posted a short story for Christmas, was being used as a Free Parking Space by people advertising shit and other bad behavior. Man, why do people have to ruin everything?

The End

When I set up this LJ account in 2005, I decided to allow for anonymous posting, to be nice. So that people didn't have to set up an LJ account just to comment.

But no more.

Sorry for the interruption for everyone else.

Dr. Phil

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[redwill.livejournal.com]

The bastards.
I used to allow unrestricted comments, but eventually changed it to screen anonymous comments, but only anonymous ones. Everything else is allowed through. I also set it to log the IP of anonymous commenters only. It was the least restriction I felt I could live with.

[dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com]

I always had it set to log the IP of anonymous commenters, which one message in that string of spam actually warned about. So when I finally got around to marking them for deletion and marking them as spam -- I was probably six months out of date for anything bad to happen to them. (grin)

Still...

Dr. Phil

We've noted same activity in our neck of the woods

[wendyb-09.livejournal.com]

While I realize the first w in www stands for world, and therefore not restricted to local activity, we've noticed a massive recent issue with spam being forced through our private web-mail for a group I belong to.

About a month ago, daily spam to me on my gmail account was 3-6 per day, and usually showed an address that was set to forward from our group's web site. I'm the secretary, which includes a newsletter, so it looked like was coming from the secretary@ or newsletter@ address.

Then suddenly, 3 weeks ago, the overnight the spam count went to 150+ per day, evenly split between the two addresses. Let the webmaster know, she's not only a member of our group, but owns the web company too. They tried some filtering and new blocking code, which reduced it to 50-75 a day. According to their programers, the evil-doers have figured out how to program around the blocking code on a private site and dump into our email. They're researching further and will update the code as they get new solutions. Apparently if they try a higher blocking level, we won't be able to receive the email we ARE supposed to be getting. loverly.

Current spam count for the past 10 days 786. Mostly for body parts I'll never have, even if I turn out to be immortal...

Re: We've noted same activity in our neck of the woods

[dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com]

World need not mean Stupid. But there are plenty in the hundreds of millions of computer users who would like me to think that it does.

The university e-mail has an elaborate spam pre-processor on the mail system, and yet I still get messages with clearly spammy return addresses or subject lines making it through to my inbox. And since the spam is a pre-processor, there is no way to mark this stuff as spam and teach the spam pre-processor. Clever.

Meanwhile, what makes these Idiots think that I would look at, let alone buy whatever from, an e-mail whose return address is my e-mail. Uh, wouldn't I know what it was I was selling to myself? And at an 87% discount?

Sorry, but hacking and barfing emails into my inbox does not make me interested in or charitable to your hopes and dreams of profit. (evil-grin)

Dr. Phil