April 2014

SPAMMERS go away!

No SPAM!I hate SPAM.

I hate it when spammers SPAM.

Two days ago the web hosting service for RestoringTally restricted access to the site because the site was overloading the server.

After a bit of investigating I determined that I was getting so much SPAM in a short period that the server processing was more than my shared hosting account could handle. So they shut me down.

The spammers were leaving several comments per minute. Generally I get between 2000 and 4000 SPAM comments each day. Some days are worse than others. And some times are worse than other times. Each comment goes through my SPAM filters and also goes through Mollom, a SPAM filtering service I use to keep SPAM off the site. It work very well. There are days where 1 or 2 SPAM comments may get through and are published. I manually delete them. Read more . . .