I know we’re all essentially powerless against spam. We can try to adjust our workflow around it; we can try to beat it with technology. But in the end, spam’s going to win.
But this afternoon, some cretin decided to leave comment spam on my recent post about my grandmother dying. Comment spam for Cialis, the erection drug du jour, of all things.
It pissed me off. I reported his sorry ass, and I just got notice that his Internet account has been terminated as a result.
Sure, he’ll probably just set up shop somewhere else, the limp-dicked jerk. But still, small victories can feel awful nice.
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Score one for the good guys.
How did you report him by the way?
I get that comment spam crap all the time, and if it wasn’t for Blacklist, I’d be powerless.
Let me know cause I’d like to report those sorry jerks. Maybe you could post something?
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He was using the DNS redirect service through dyndns.org. (Which allows you to access a dynamic-IP server through a constant homeip.net web addresss. I’m actually a dyndns.org customer, although I never use it.)
Anyway, once I saw he was using dyndns.org, I just complained to them and they cancelled his account within a couple hours. So all his comment spamming was rendered useless, since the address he was spamming for doesn’t work anymore.
If he hadn’t been a dyndns.org customer, I would have just run his web site URL and his IP address through samspade.org to figure out who’s (a) hosting his server and (b) giving him Internet access. Then I would have emailed the abuse contacts at both places. I think most ISPs are happy to be rid of these guys.