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Todd Friesen – Confessions of a Reformed Spammer

Nov 11, 2009 | No Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Todd Friesen is a former blog spammer. Who knows? He may have visited your blog in the past. Hear his tales of the “old” days, why and how he did what he did… and why he no longer does it. Todd [...]

Internet

Blog Comment Spammers

Apr 12, 2007 | 13 Comments

A few moments ago, I received a comment notifcation for a post I made a couple of years ago (which must rank well in Google for it to be noticed today). The comment turned out to be spam for An HDTV Reminder. I get hundreds of spam comments every day. In fact, my installation of [...]

Software

Akismet Lacks Essential Features

Sep 3, 2006 | 11 Comments

I get a lot of comment spam, and Akismet blocks most of that spam effectively. Here’s the problem: the Akismet service isn’t paginated. So, even though my Akismet WordPress plugin tells me that I currently have 2,402 potential spam messages in the queue, I can only view the first 150 (?) or so. I run [...]