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From windmills to cupolas to chicken coops-I'm a popular lady!
by Cheryl Baumgartner(CITRMS) Independent Associate with LegalShield
The first wave of spammers were blown in by Windmills.
No less than 10 comments a day and all of them with links to God knows what, but every one of the user names started with the word 'windmills'. It didn't take long at all to figure it out. But in no time at all Cupolas joined the fray.
I went through about two weeks of being blasted by both before the windmills opted to bow out. About a week of constant Cupolas showing up and getting deleted brought the most idiotic of all the spambots. The dreaded chicken coop.
Of course I had to go through a week of Cupolas and chicken coops together. Right now it's chicken coops only but I can't wait to see what comes next. Doghouses? Rat traps?
Thank the blogging angels I have the Akismet plug in that automatically sends these posts to spam where they belong.
About Cheryl Baumgartner(CITRMS) 
Independent Associate with LegalShield
1,002 connections, 64 recommendations, 3,704 honor points.Joined APSense since, May 18th, 2007, From San Antonio, TX, United States.
Created on Dec 20th 2011 08:44. Viewed 850 times.
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Cheryl Baumgartner(CITRMS)
Independent Associate with LegalShieldI'm not one to turn my nose up at a little love, but just not that interested in 'Spambot love'! Dec 20th 2011 12:46 |
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Cheryl Baumgartner(CITRMS)
Independent Associate with LegalShieldYes I use it and it doesn't block them, just diverts them to a spam folder for review. Dec 20th 2011 15:45 |
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Cheryl Baumgartner(CITRMS)
Independent Associate with LegalShieldI do review as I have found because of my settings legitimate comments have gone there. A single link triggers Akismet on my blog so every pingback gets marked as spam Dec 20th 2011 19:31 |
Yep! Everybody Loves pplchery163...lol
Dec 20th 2011 11:15