One "good" thing about having to plough through 8,000+ pieces of comment spam is that patterns start to emerge quite quickly.
Two favourite topics in comment spam are sex and money. Sex comes with links to teen sex and Viagra sites, for example. The money side comes in assorted gambling sites and credit and debt sites.
It's interesting to see the sudden peaks from one site that then, just as suddenly, disappear. Of course if, like me, you haven't been updating the MT-Blacklist blacklist (if you see what I mean) then some sites will hit you with a second and more peaks of comment spam.
It was interesting to see the time trend of the comment spam too. Most of it was in October, presumably because the spammers found domains that, increasingly, weren't on the version of the blacklist that I had.
Did I forget to mention drug / medicines spam? Again clearly visible peaks and plateaux. Someone must make money from online pharmacy judging by the volume of medicines-related junk that is included in the spam.
Posted by Andrew Watt at November 1, 2004 02:48 PM | TrackBack