http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/02/07/still-smarter-than-most-spammers/ the blog that is not dansdata.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:23:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/02/07/still-smarter-than-most-spammers/#comment-4267 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:05:51 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/02/07/still-smarter-than-most-spammers/#comment-4267 My personal photo gallery site used to have a form that allowed people to comment on every photo (without registering, and without a captcha or anything). A spam bot found it, and added several hundred comments like the ones you describe...but it added them all to the same photo (one photo in the middle of one album). I've turned off the comment feature, but the spambot remains recklessly optimistic, and I still see occasional log entries from its attempts to keep commenting on this one lonely picture. My personal photo gallery site used to have a form that allowed people to comment on every photo (without registering, and without a captcha or anything). A spam bot found it, and added several hundred comments like the ones you describe...but it added them all to the same photo (one photo in the middle of one album). I've turned off the comment feature, but the spambot remains recklessly optimistic, and I still see occasional log entries from its attempts to keep commenting on this one lonely picture.

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