I haven’t written about comment spam in forever, mainly because I have a toolset that works for me. I’m writing this morning, though, because I’ve gotten ~4000 spams hitting IJSM.org in the last day. Overnight? 2600+. Clearly, someone is paying some enterprising coders pretty well this week.

Never forget: comment spam isn’t personal, and it is a money maker for the spammers. That’s their whole motivation.

UPDATE at 15:04:

There are currently 0 comments in moderation

There have been 4877 comment spams caught since the last digest report 1 day ago.

The beautiful thing, though, is that my server is not even batting an eyelash. My load average is consistently <1 [and 4.0 is full utilization on this box].