Various stuff
Language:
I’m going to stop approving comments in other languages than English. Some Russians started writing Russian words in the western alphabet, and it just got way too hard to even try to figure out what they were saying. So, no more Russian, Norwegian or whatever other language you think I might understand in some way.
The Israeli
The Israeli spammers are not only back, they’re bigger than ever. I got two leads on them recently, so I wrote a page I called Shetef, after the domain they were initially known by - or so we believe.
Hard to understand
My friends and family have complained that it’s impossible to understand what I’m writing here. I have to concede that one. I’ve been writing on a certain level that holds the interest of geeks like me, but all the terms we use are completely outside the realm of a regular computer user. If you’re here, and you really want to understand it, please start with the Explanation of terms. It’s my glossary of terms I use a lot. Not all that updated, but you’re allowed to help. The format is I try to use one sentence to explain the term, and then link to an article in Wikipedia if it needs a whole lot of info to explain fully.
October 12th, 2006 at 8:15 am
I’m still not sure, after reading the spam poisoning what it means.
Do you mean probing with trackback/comment or other webspam, with links to google etc?
Another webspam I’ve been getting of late, is what I call moronic webspamming, where all the body, comment, extract and even the domains are gobbledygook. I can see no reason other than probing or ‘because I can.’
October 12th, 2006 at 10:27 am
Yes, you have the general idea of spam poisoning down. Sometimes it is done to make maintaining a good blacklist of spam URLs hard. Other times it is done just for revenge against sites the spammer doesn’t like, for example Spamhuntress’ URL is sometimes included in spam because they can’t stand her.
And what you call moronic webspam is a mystery to all of us. Either it is probing for future attacks like you said, testing of spamming software, done by total idiots by accident (not knowing how to use their spamming software), or just malicious vandalism. Likely each reason is the cause of some of the moronic spam.