First we had e-mail and newsgroups, and then we had spam. Then we had blogs, and soon after we had blog comment spam. Luckily, here on our Wordpress based blog, Spam Karma 2 is doing a good job of keeping the spam away or, at least, under wraps.
Today I’ve witnessed the birth of a new kind of spam: bug tracking system spam. Since our projects are open source, we keep the ability to submit bugs open to anyone. Today, we got a "bug report" that appears to be Chinese spam. Ian ran it through a translator, and in fact, it is spam for some sort of LED display, as the URL they posted suggests.
I’m going to leave it in the database for a few days so anyone read this can check it out. Come Monday, I’m going to remove it from the database. I just wonder the effectiveness of spamming a bug tracking database that very few people read. Of course, I’ve increased the readership of that piece of spam by posting about it here in my incredulity.
My little blog gets 15-20 spam comments per day. The good folks at akismet filter it out, but geez, it never ends. I’m now re-thinking a semi-public bug trakcing system!
spam karma 2 has stopped 31,115 spams since we installed a couple of months ago…. it’s just fantastic. -rdb°
Someone else below asked this already about antispam scripts. I am getting nailed with Spam on my website mails and in our blog website - now its offline too much spam. Is there anyway to stop this? If not, there really isn't any point in leaving it up and active. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks for help, Keep up the good work. Greetings from Poland