Lewis, can you please leave now!
May. 27th, 2009 02:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Sigh.
I'm fed up with this J-spam. If you've had any recently could you go comment on this support request IPs and idea's especially welcome.
If you don't know what I'm talking about by 125.14.xxx.xxx, 125.15.xxx.xxx or Lewis then casadetodd has a good explanation.
I'm fed up with this J-spam. If you've had any recently could you go comment on this support request IPs and idea's especially welcome.
If you don't know what I'm talking about by 125.14.xxx.xxx, 125.15.xxx.xxx or Lewis then casadetodd has a good explanation.
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Date: 2009-05-27 02:19 pm (UTC)IP blocking is notoriously unhelpful in these situations - spammers just switch IP addresses, and normal users behind the same proxies get shafted.
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Date: 2009-05-27 02:26 pm (UTC)One obvious solution is to allow individual users to ban IP ranges from anonymous comments.
It's just bizare that I get this one stream of Dadaist comment spam, and nothing else.
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Date: 2009-05-27 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-27 02:58 pm (UTC)Where's that list of key words ...
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Date: 2009-05-27 03:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-27 03:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-27 03:31 pm (UTC)The batty-ness of the responses could be put down to the spammer using translation software to read and/or create responses to posts. Tokenisation (the identification of individual words) in Japanese automated translations is notoriously appalling and is one of the problems I run into in my work all the time. It gives rise to a slight or profound context drift in any translated document. Many of the spam messages I received made no sense whatsoever, but the ones that did appeared to be the result of one of the following: a) someone reading a translated version of my post or b) posting a poorly translated (Japanese to English) response to it, or c) of a bot with a pretty good language algorithm doing it.
The problem is, the photograph incident on Mango's journal rather kiboshes the bot-with-language-algorithm idea.
I don't know if bots can deal with captcha text. It's just not my area. I know some humans can, although frankly I find it a bit challenging. ;) I'm still of the belief that this is more likely to be a nutter than a bot, but whatever/whoever it is, I'm interested to know why taking my journal out of its reading list for a week stopped it dead.
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Date: 2009-05-27 03:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-27 03:55 pm (UTC)Maybe we should call their bluff and ALL turn up?
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Date: 2009-05-27 04:10 pm (UTC)I like it!
2 and half years shows some dedication from this nutter.
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Date: 2009-05-27 04:46 pm (UTC)I suspect that alcoholism is involved.
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Date: 2009-05-28 08:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-29 07:57 am (UTC)