Talk about stupid people… I had a couple of comment spams get written to Aimless a couple of days ago but I stay on top of comments and removed them quickly. The reason porno hounds and Viagra scalpers use it is for the anchor text in the links… they want PageRank and juice on specific keywords so when you type ‘barely 18′ into Google, they get your business. These first comment spams led nowhere; the spammer was just measuring my response. When he saw how quickly I moved he decided not to spam my comments.

Then today, I get a couple of trackback pings that are obvious spam. Except that Movable Type doesn’t make it easy to remove pings. So, I’m looking at it and thinking this might be a problem. I’ll take care of it later… 5:00 PM hits and the pingbot spammer script starts doing its biz. 50 trackback pings in under an hour, all spam but now I know where to find “MILF grannies doing time.” Sweet. Not.

I had been putting off installing MT-BlackList. Spam just wasn’t that big of a problem prior to today but I ran out and downloaded it and 15 minutes later (setup time not download time) I had it up and running and had removed the SPAM. Now that’s sweet. What could be better?

1. SPAMMERS could fall over dead tomorrow. You know, like a reverse rapture. All the stupid idiots and spammers could die and go spend some time with the man downstairs and we could enjoy earthly paradise.

2. Movable Type could buy this beautiful piece of code and integrate it. There is no excuse not to. In fact, MT is foolish for not doing so NOW. This blacklist by IP feature they offer is a pile of crap. MT 3.0 is such a let down. It’s really MT 2.70 - don’t let ‘em fool you friend. Stupid. Negligent. Criminal.

3. Not much else.