i logged in this morning and discovered 78 spam comments in my spam directory…
usually i log in and discover – at most – one or two spam comments. frequently i log in and find no spam comments at all (which is the way i like it), but 78 was a bit of a shock…
i also discovered that they are all from 4 or 5 different IP addresses…
since i installed my anti-spam plugins, my ability to control who comments has become a lot easier. i thought i had blocked those 4 or 5 different IP addresses already, but…
i have one method of blocking IP addresses from WP, and i have another, completely different method of blocking IP addresses from OSC. they’re similar, in that they both work off of lists, but the lists are in different places, and configured differently.
apparently i had blocked those 4 or 5 different IP addresses from OSC, but not from WP… and, it is my personal experience, that when spammers don’t get to leave spam everywhere, they get upset and try to mail-bomb me until they are completely blocked from communcation with me, at which point they get frustrated and go try to mess up somebody else’s good time.
bye spammers… go mess up somebody else’s site. you’re not going to get in here and all you’ll achieve is to piss me off… and you won’t like it when i’m pissed off.