Comments on: Blogosphere suffers spam explosion

Technology may have made e-mail spam manageable, but it's not quite there yet for blog spam.

[djpaisley]

Splogs

Splogs are nothing new, if you notice on Blogger they now have a way to report a blog. This is why, not only can you have trackback spam, comment spam, the blog itself can be total spam targeted directly at certain PPC phrases, depending on bid cost.

http://www.mccom.com/technique/article_1.html

[debll]

interesting ...

That one of the sponsored sites on this story is www.blog-blast.com - to "automatically send your advertising to millions".

What we really need is for someone to develop a "return to sender" function so that all we victims of spam/splog/junk can return the favor. I'd gladly pay for that.

[tipper_gore]

interesting?

Actually that's more than "interesting," it's kinda scandalous. And funny.

[digital_joe01]

spam them back!

I agree... you have to spam them back to cut into their costs and make it unprofitable to spam. I started a non-profit site that does just that: thinkNoSpam.com

[SeizeCTRL]

Simple solution

Make it legal to hunt down and kill spammers.

On top of that, start banning the accounts of people who have their machines taken over. If you don't care enough to secure PC even just a tad bit, then you don't belong on the internet.

[hadaso]

Spam their merchant accounts!

What really needs to be done with those that advertise their online businensses like that, is that their billing system should be spammed: they depend on the few people that would follow the links in their spam and purchase their services. They should work har to locate the legitimate ones out of a flood of bogus "purchases" with invalid credit card numbers etc. So their billing systems should be fed with lots of phony info, preferably automatically and from distributed sources (such as through open proxies located by those who list open proxies). I hope this can be done in a way that costs them real money in fees they pay to whoever manages their billing.

[darren.crocker]

Blam! to the rescue?

We've just put a product into Beta that would allow any Blogger to protect their blog (or any HTML form for that matter) against this type of nonsense. We'd be happy to have you on board as a tester.
www.drcc.com/blam for more info.

[digital_joe01]

a new way to spam all spammers back

This spam explosion is driving me nuts too. However I think the solution is NOT to continue filtering this spam or charging for email, but rather to stop it at it's source by increasing a) the cost and b) the return spam back to the sender. If it becomes unprofitable to spam costing spammers time and money to spam, the theory is spam will stop. I've been working on this idea, and would like any feedback and support to this non-profit effort: thinkNoSpam.com. I will listen and respond to any questions, comments, suggestions.

-JC

[Jackson Cracker]

It's called the FUSSP

As in Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem.
It's been discussed extensively over the years in
various Usenet newsgroups.
More information here if you're really interested:
http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html