Sunday, December 12, 2004

I just downloaded 290+ 300+ 900+ spam comments to my email. Joy. It was one thing to get a dozen or two a day, but this is madness! They should be hunted down and killed on sight.

Technical snafu #2 today is the big screen TV, which was working fine this morning before I left the house. Now it doesn’t want to fire up at all. It’s trying, but it never brings up the picture. I can hear the channels because they feed through the sound system, but nothing to see. I tried unplugging it and replugging it, but still nothing. And I had to unplug it to get the blinking warning lights on the front to stop - just pressing the power button does nothing.

And I was having such a great day, too. The children’s musical at church was fantastic and Nee did a great job as Mary. We went to the British Pantry for a late lunch for ECD’s birthday, and they both enjoyed that a lot.

So now I’m going to delete all the spam from my comments and then see what I can do (if anything) about the TV.

UPDATE: As I typed this post, 39 more messages downloaded to my email. I’ve closed all comments temporarily in an attempt to get rid of this spammer. He’s been at it here all day from the message timestamps.

UPDATE #2: I just checked my 0spam.com account - there were 572 comment notification messages that hadn’t passed muster and gotten to my email account yet. I just deleted them outright - no sense in downloading that junk.

I. AM. NOT. HAPPY.

UPDATE #3: I’ve got the comments turned off from the main weblog management page in the control panel and I also have them set to require registration, which you should not be able to do from the regular comment page. I’m able to leave comments though - even when I’m logged out of the control panel and have to enter my info. Will someone please attempt to comment so I will know if it’s really turned off or not? If you’re not able to, please take the time to email me at jenspeaks [at] freakinjen [dot] us to let me know. Thanks.

UPDATE #4: Desperate times call for drastic measures. I removed the comment code from the templates in the control panel temporarily. I just downloaded another 100 or so messages to my email. This is completely ridiculous!

Looking at my host stats, I’m pretty sure it’s GigaBot and Inktomi that’s hitting me. I don’t have the techie skillz to kill the bots. I’d appreciate any help that’s offered.

LATER: I will restore the comments code in the morning. I’m going to go watch the Survivor finale. I’m done dealing with the spam tonight.