Dear spammer at 79.142.68.99,

I'm glad to see that you finally figured out how your spam software works:

1. attempt at 8:29am: "comment3, "
2. attempt at 9:29am: "comment4, "
3. attempt at 10:29am: "comment6, "
4. attempt at 11:28am: "comment1, "
5. attempt at 12:28pm: "comment6, "
6. attempt at 2:36pm: You did it! Finally a text with 30 links to http://zabagu5te.info - congrats!

Once you figured that one out, you started sending more of the same, always using different domains. I see you got a bunch of nice .info domains there: read more

Now that's an interesting spam attempt for a change. With Geeklog, we were lucky to be taking part in Google's Summer of Code program again in 2009 and announced that on our site. The program has since ended and there isn't really much to post about right now. But tonight, someone tried to leave a comment on our announcement post.

The content of that comment has apparently been lifted from a blog post by one of the mentors of the Django project (who also participated in GSoC this year). Other than GSoC, there's no connection between Geeklog and Django, so there's no reason to post that on our site, especially not months after the fact.

The thing that did trigger our spam filter, though: read more

Spam is the abuse of electronic messaging systems [...] While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam [...]

Yes, dear spammer, we all know what spam is. No need to quote Wikipedia. The funny thing is that the spam post ended with Examples of spam: and four links to the well-known spammer's haven narod.ru (and it was this, of course, which triggered the spam filter for this post).

At 6:26 CET this morning, one of my sites was hit with (at least) 44 attempts to leave spam posts advertising "blog hosting" at wordpress.com.

It only lasted for a minute and IP addresses were from all over the world (China, Indonesia, but also ones belonging to Comcast). So this was your typical botnet in action.

Not sure what the point was, though. Either they wanted to discredit wordpress.com (i.e. a joe job). Or it was simply test spam, like we've seen it for all major search engines in the past. Odd in any case, though ...

Okay, this gets a bonus point for being ballsy. From a comment that I just deleted from this site:

I have a question: can i ssppaamm in this topic ny sites to ads they?

No, you can't. Thanks for the IP range: 218.246.0.0/19 - some "Development & Research Center of State Council Net." in Beijing.