I bet yer all dying to know how my "Hang The Wanker" game is going, so here's a swift update with Februarys results. These results only reflect a partial month though as the game didn't start until the 13^th : In total there were 2,212 wankers who decided to participate, making a total of 10,653 attempts to win the prize ...... they all failed ..... bitch huh? Of course the number one challenger was 81.177.14.26 who had 606 attempts before I decided to ban their arse from the server completely, a game's a game but this tit just takes the piss.

Whilst all this looks like just a bit of fun it does have a serious side. Every single one of these hits that have been stopped have been shown a "piss off you wanker" message which is about 140 characters in length. If they hadn't been stopped at the door then each one of them would have involved the whole of the evocore being loaded, several database hits whilst it struts it's stuff, and then the bandwidth of sending the page to a wanker ... all 50,123 characters of it. If you multiply those figures up, you have a bandwidth saving of 532,468,899 characters alone ( just over half a gig :| ). God knows how much cpu/mysql resources I've just saved as well.

Now I don't know about you lot, but personally I prefer to use that half a gig of bandwidth and the associated cpu and mysql resources to serve up my blog to the twisted few [i]that actually read it[/i]! .... wierd or what? Don't get me wrong, I have shedloads of bandwidth going idle, and the cpu is hardly breaking into a warm, never mind a sweat, as my blogs pretty much all on its lonesome on this box, but I begrudge wasting any server resources on spammers ..... unless it's to play games with them ;)

Anyway, I think it's time I wandered off and added some new rules to the game so that the spammers don't get bored ....
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The thing I like about the web is, everybody has a voice ...... even if most voices are ignored ...... it's a great leveler.

Anyway, during one of my recent meanderings I found this post.

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You know when you wake up the morning after and think to yourself "I wish I hadn't said that"?

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Following up from my "hang the wanker" game I just thought I'd share some of the results. Out of the 1,500+ spam attempts I've received in the last 24 hours alone, one ip in particular was responsible for almost [b]80%[/b] of them and is the reason for this post. The ip in particular is [b]81.177.14.26[/b] and following a chat with Danny he found out that it was part of an ip block ( 81.177.14 / 81.177.15 ) for a russian host (no suprises there then).

From looking at the logs of various sites on a multitude of servers I was deeply dissapointed to discover that it wasn't me that was popular, this wanker hits every server we checked! So, the best advice I can give you is this. For those of you who run windows servers then I advise you hit IIS and ban the whole bloody lot of them ( you can find instructions here ). If you have a website hosted on a linux box then I'd advise that you add the following to your htaccess to stop this tit from wasting your bandwidth and cpu :-

order allow,deny
deny from 81.177.14.
deny from 81.177.15.
allow from all

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It's been a while since I last played with wankers ... I mean "spammers" .... they must be missing all the fun and games we used to have ....... so I decided to make up for it and play "hang the wanker". This novel little game starts by emptying your blacklist and then sitting back and just waiting for the contestants to arrive. Simple huh? The rules of the game are even simpler, there are none, after all it's pretty pointless having rules when you're playing games with someone who hasn't even got the basic intelligence to work out that people despise everything that they do.

Now, before you all go "ohhh this sounds like a cool game" and rush off to empty your own blacklists so that you can participate as well ..... DON'T :| ..... no, seriously don't .... unless you fancy deleting the thousands of spam that you'll receive because you didn't know the rules either!

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