LJ Comment Spam
Aug. 17th, 2006 08:39 pmFor several months, I've received occasional anonymous comments that I assumed were spam. The comments are always in response my political posts, and are always in this form:
I finally got around to setting my LJ to screen anonymous comments and record the IP of the poster. I accidentally unthinkingly deleted one last week, but this morning I got another. It's from 206.15.101.139. Network Solutions Whois tells me this:
Morons. They aren't even smart enough to spam from a disguised server.
Unfortunately, LiveJournal doesn't allow you to ban comments by IP. So what recourse do I have now?
all lowercase sentence expressing shock at the latest developments ("i can't believe this is happening!"
HEADLINE
link to an article on Faux News
I finally got around to setting my LJ to screen anonymous comments and record the IP of the poster. I accidentally unthinkingly deleted one last week, but this morning I got another. It's from 206.15.101.139. Network Solutions Whois tells me this:
206.15.101.139
Record Type: IP Address
OrgName: News Corporation
OrgID: NEWSC
Address: 1211 Avenue of the Americas
Address: 7th Floor
City: New York
StateProv: NY
PostalCode: 10036
Country: US
Morons. They aren't even smart enough to spam from a disguised server.
Unfortunately, LiveJournal doesn't allow you to ban comments by IP. So what recourse do I have now?
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Date: 2006-08-18 02:29 pm (UTC)