Thanks Mark, Your post, combined with an article in one of the Norwegian tabloids yesterday made the coin drop. :-) Now I suddenly understand the point of restricting permissions to post comments on a blog. When open to anyone, it's actually a free, non-traceable webspace for spammers to provide illegal content for a limited time. If they're lucky, they get a free ride for a couple of days or even more before the blog owner removes the shit.
Hm... Time to tighten restrictions on my own blog. :-( Jostein 2007/7/10, Mark Cassino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Jostein- > > Hmmm - just checked the blacklist and blogspot.com is on it. The list > reflects the collective spam experience of all the blog users, and > judging by some of the earlier blogspot sub domains there were some > obviously problems with blogspot blogs that ultimately resulted in the > whole domain getting banned. It looks like they banned about 120 obvious > porn, pharm, and replica rolex sites based out of blogspot.com before > blocking the whole domain. > > I was worried that I might have accidentally banned your IP address. > Some of the strongest attacks on my website (not the blog - the static > HTML site) - have come from IP's registered to the RIPE Network. At > first I thought this was just an ISP in Europe and was pretty much > blanket banning whole hierarchies of RIPE IP addresses, but then I > discovered that it is a core, backbone IP address assigner, sort of like > (I guess) Registrar. So my goal of banning all RIPE addresses was, um, > misguided :-/ > > I followed some advice from Doug Brewer at GFM and upgraded my blog to a > version that supports spam karma. That has stopped spam dead - I even > dropped the IP blacklist, though I still have selected Robots banned at > the server level. > > Anyhow - glad you were able to link to the site afterall! > > - MCC > > AlunFoto wrote: > > Mark, > > I've tried to link to yours from my blogspot. The link worked two or > > three times before your server began telling me that access through > > linking was an act of spamming, and denied access. > > > > It sort of puzzled me a bit, but it's not a big deal. I linked to the > > root page of your site instead. :-) > > > > Jostein > > -- > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Mark Cassino Photography > Kalamazoo, Michigan > www.markcassino.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
