June statistics

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Spam stats: Breakdown of spam by day

Damn the spammers were out in force in June. In total we had over 51,400 spam attempts on our blogs which were pushing 102 urls. One of their new tricks is to spam you with search engine results links, as nobody is going to blacklist Yahoo right? The good news is that only 2 of their spamming garbage got past the spam hound (0.003% failure rate) and into the moderation queue

Spam stats: Breakdown of spam by hour

The busiest day of the week by far was Fridays ( 8,727 ) followed closely by Thursdays ( 7,857 ) and Tuesdays ( 7,549 ). They did most of their spamming between 5am -> 6am ( 2,627) and 12am -> 1pm ( 2,571 ).

At the moment the SpamHound allows these arses to waste my servers resources by sending them the whole page, but I'm in the middle of recoding it for (the much promised) 1.8 version of Phoenix. Once it's recoded I'll be keeping stats on how many of these arses I can stop at the door with minimal bandwidth/cpu overheads.

The lengths that they go to, to bypass any anti-spam measures that are in place really should tell these wankers that their crap REALLY ISN'T WANTED, but all they care about is getting links to their garbage so that they can make money. What sort of mentality is that?

As usual the urls that they spammed us with are full of a shedload of drug names, maybe we should look at combining the blacklist with a medical directory of drugs? They're also continuing their trend of spamming with bogus urls, probably trying to work out how to get past various anti-spam measures.

If you run a b2evo blog then I'd advise that you check that all of the following urls are in your blacklist (apart from the yahoo one, which is the search results url I mentioned, it doesn't affect the SpamHound because it doesn't rely on just a url to mark a comment as spam). You might also want to implement the hack mentioned in this post on the forums as it would have stopped over 7,500 spam all on it's own.

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