Wrote this last night:
Right now I'm just too angry to think straight. Got back home from the faculty party to discover that I'd been bombarded with something like 100 pieces of comment spam.
I'm on 56 kbps dialup, and at the rate that I'm going -- I'm just taking a breather right now -- it seems like it'll take me over an hour to finish deleting the comments. (They're not just little lines, either; they're a whole series of urls on Vegas casinos or something.)
Right now I'm seriously considering taking the weblog down -- the comments are taking up space on my server, which I pay good money for, while these pissant motherfuckers continue to bombard me with their shit. I mean, Jesus, they hit every one of my entries from a year ago! And I don't want to just delete the comment tags off my template either, because I don't know whether my comments all disappear forever. (I've tried setting my comments to "closed" but it doesn't seem to work.)
Fuck these people. You deserve to rot in the same circle of hell reserved for Cheney and Ashcroft.
[Update: Found him on whois.us. This is the asshole who spammed me yesterday:
Registrant Name Jay Kim
Registrant Organization Unknown
Registrant Address1 24 Finchley Road
Registrant City London
Registrant State/Province Not Applicable
Registrant Postal Code 10024
Registrant Country United Kingdom
Registrant Country Code UK
Registrant Phone Number +1.1111111111
Registrant Email e-webmaster@support24x7.biz
Fuck you, Jay Kim.]
Further update: just managed to turn off the comments by upgrading MT and editing the comment listing template (not the main index template). That's it -- if any of you want to reach me you can e-mail me via the address in the right column.
Further update, even after that: nope, it still doesn't seem to work.
Even further update: okay, maybe I overreacted a little. But David Raynes's method of damage control works for now. Anyone can still comment, I think, but only on the entries still on the index page. (And I was pretty close to simply deleting mt-comments.cgi so people would get a 404 error if they clicked on it.)
Posted by the wily filipino at January 27, 2004 06:50 AM