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October 11, 2005
[OT] Spammers killed comments dead!
Spammers didn’t just kill my comments, they killed them dead! With receiving over 20,000 spam comments a day and over 2,000,000 comments over the past 2 weeks, spam brought my data base to its knees, toppled my server and severely bottlenecked my bandwidth. Due to the amount of spam I’ve received my web host blocked permissions to my cgi-bin (without telling me) breaking comments. I thought I had fixed this issues earlier in the week but after I’d change the permission settings someone else would change them back an hour later.
I want to avoid requiring user logins or having to monitor post because I think this hinders commenters and active discussions. So, until I am able to figure out a solution, my comments are killed dead. Thanks Spammers!
-erik
Posted by erikbianchi at October 11, 2005 11:36 PM