Why Dont You Blog?

Idly deleting the blogspam in Akismet I see that this blog appears to have got spam from… itself.

admin | info@www.whydontyou.org.uk | whydontyou.org.uk | IP: 85.153.7.194
Your investigation have been helpfull for me. I wish everybody writes article as this.

WTF? Well, I suppose it’s always possible that I am suffering from a brain disease that makes me both send out spam at random and forget that I’ve sent it.

Plus removes any native-speaking familiarity with the English langauge.

Not to mention that it seems that I’ve been absent-mindedly visiting Turkey without realising it. Because this host is what that IP resolves to (assuming, for no good reason, that the originating IP isn’t spoofed)

Turkey
City: Istanbul
Latitude: 41.0186 Longitude: 28.9647
Host: barbaros.turkbilnet.com
IP: 85.153.7.194

This really pisses me off. If the spammers are so prolific that they’ve spammed the blog they were using as a pretend source, how many other blogs have got spams that seem to originate from here?

Does anyone have any suggestions about what to do about this?

As mentioned on the Compuskills web blog, the blogs hosted by compuskills (what a mouthfull!) will start to blacklist sources of comment spam. As of yesterday the list stood at a moderate:

• 62.149.14.43
• 5.255.119.75
• 6.232.107.234
• 18.72.250.54
• 95.225.177.4
• 85.255.119.132
• 75.46.50.213

But new IPs will be added each time they are the source for four or more spam comments. (expect a few more to be added between now and the next published list!