Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: RANTING|Technology
17 Apr 2008Ok folks, I am tired of people spamming my captcha contact form. I need a better solution. Does anyone have an excellent, proven, and simple to deploy method for fooling the bots on a contact form?
In: Life
14 Sep 2006Over the last 3 weeks, I have been unusually quiet, even for me. I am taking a creative hiatus and doing a lot of reading, by real writers, not just technical books. I am also in the office a lot more than I have been for the last two months. Getting back into that takes [...]
This was in my mailbox just now. Huh?!?!? NEW BBC SERIES Thinking about having a baby? We are looking for couples to take part in a new BBC series exploring the science behind getting pregnant and pregnancy. If you are thinking about trying for a baby or have already started trying and would like to [...]
In: smp
6 Jul 2005This morning, my server was the victim of a sustained DDoS lasting approximately 45 minutes. The entire flow of traffic came from the usual group of trackback and comment spam morons. Now, the good news: b2evolution came through the event with flying colours. The antispam feature built into the product prevented ANY attempts by these [...]
In: smp
29 Jun 2005I have been seeing these bursts of traffic, mainly from spambot morons, that have suddenly been crushing my server. The main cause: excessive database connections. This was quickly remedied today when I changed all of the mysql_connect statements to mysql_pconnect statements. This allows PHP to use an existing connection to the MySQL database to serve [...]
In: RANTING
2 Jun 2005Ok, started to notice a dramtic and sudden increase in traffic to my site yesterday. Turns out that all of these folks were headed to the same place at this host: /index.php?disp=stats So, when I checked this out, they were all indicating referrals from the usual illicit medication and adult sites. <sigh> More trackback and [...]
In: smp
12 Apr 2005Mailbox is getting a number of these requests on a daily basis, most are from automated trawling that I mark as spam. A few haven’t bother to check that I am Canadian. A few actually want to talk. Anyone else seeing activity a la 1999 recently? Hank Stringer has, of course…
In: smp
2 Apr 2005I have 50; I need None. Please take the freaking things! Leave a frickin’ comment to get a bloody invites sent to your spam-o-licious mailbox!
In: smp
2 Mar 2005Gotta love these: genaholincorporated.com Thankfully the b2evo spam filters crush their comment and trackback spam. However, had to add them to the filter script I run every minute to clean out extraneous hits. Luckily the bots have a unique browser string! May your bots melt in the 10th Level of Hell.
The andrewsaluk.com is now a live server hawking online casino gaming. Oh, and it appears that the domain has been relocated to China; was previously in South Korea. Looks like these morons are slamming a lot of sites. Thankfullt b2evolution has very effective anti-spam tools. Someone else is posting on this. [here] Oh look! Someone [...]