Porn Spammers Knocking Blogs Off The Net

Vanity | October 14, 2003 | Thud

[Thud]

It appears that porn spammers have developed a script which lets them insert spam into the comments sections of weblogs (blogs) which use Moveable Type.

They have just started doing so and this uses up all the monthly paid-in-advance bandwidth of many blogs such as WindsOfChange.net who permit reader comments. That knocks those blogs off the net. I noticed this when I attempted to log onto the excellent TerrorWatch blog, which uses the Winds of Change web site but does not have a comments section. All of Winds of Change is off-line. I called a friend of mine (Freeper Dark Wing) who posts a lot on Winds of Change, asked what had happened, and he just explained this to me.

This is definitely bad news for bloggers.

[Always Right]

I remember the good ole days before spam, viruses, spyware, adware, etc.

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[John Jorsett]

They may have to go to something like CAPTCHA to alleviate this problem.

[ChadGore]

Re: I remember the good ole days before spam, viruses, spyware, adware, etc.

These are the good old days. This will get worse before it gets better.

[MonroeDNA]

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[JoeSixPack1]

These are the good old days. This will get worse before it gets better.

When you've survived deadlines with a 286, dos 5,word perfect, and autocad loaded on an 8 meg HDD, the internet, a p4 and a cable modem with all the pitfalls is not 'worse'.

<|:-)~~

[Prodigal Son]

You might be interested in this (because of your blog).

[Always Right]

When you've survived deadlines with a 286, dos 5,word perfect, and autocad loaded on an 8 meg HDD, the internet, a p4 and a cable modem with all the pitfalls is not 'worse'.

Gee, but I liked WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3, as long as you had the handy templet that told you what all the function keys did.

[freedumb2003]

You had a HARD DISK?? And DOS?? Man, you had it made in the shade!

Try 2 8-1/2 inch floppies, CP/M on a Z80, Visicalc and, yes, WordPerfect. And I ran a secretarial service with that!

And the bits had to go uphill! Both ways! I had to write my own CCW strings! In Binary! Yeah, that's the ticket! (actually, the previous pph is 100% true)

[Poohbah]

You had floppies? I had to rewire the core memory every time I wanted to save a program!

[JoeSixPack1]

ROFL! Yes!! I'd forgotten all about Lotus 1-2-3!

[freedumb2003]

I had to rewire the core memory every time I wanted to save a program!

Been there -- this, and a Heathkit (wish I kept that -- what a conversation piece it would be!)

[Poohbah]

Wonder if you could write a TCP/IP stack and a browser for that and FReep (c8

[Joe Bonforte]

Try 2 8-1/2 inch floppies, CP/M on a Z80, Visicalc and, yes, WordPerfect.

Yawn... Real programmers learned to program with punched cards - not even a text editor no those machines. And once you've punched a hole, it's reeeal hard to unpunch it.

[Thud]

Counter-measures are available. Winds of Change has implemented some. Check out its posts on the subject here and here:

http://windsofchange.net/archives/004158.html

http://windsofchange.net/archives/004141.html

[JoeSixPack1]

hey, you want old school?

Try a 1970's era IBM MTST selectric word processor! As big as a desk armorie with a continuous tape cartridge like a double sized 8-track.

How many times I used the same piece of paper, front and back, to type out and proof read documents to make corrections.

Ten years later 10(?) inch IBM floppy disks were cause for a weeklong celebration!!

[freedumb2003]

Wonder if you could write a TCP/IP stack and a browser for that and FReep (c8

Don't remind me -- I remember setting UART in Z80 assembler just to get full-duplex communications (but I was able to telecommute and slave remote systems long before even acoustic couplers and TTY communications were put together).

[ken in texas]

My goodness! The old IMSAI 8080. I had a friend in the USAF that built one of those in the mid to late 70s. He tinkered with that thing for months... and was finally able to get it to write and read data via an audio cassette tape machine.

[freedumb2003]

Try a 1970's era IBM MTST selectric word processor! As big as a desk armorie with a continuous tape cartridge like a double sized 8-track.

You got me -- but only by a few years. I think the exact system you are describing was repackaged as the System/32 (IIRC).