I’ve been tempted to place my IP filter (Protowall) on my server for blocking this sort of thing, and then masssage the heck out of the data so I can still get to my server from work (Protowall was designed as an Anti-Anti-P2P application, which my employer would fall under), but there’s lots of groups listed in the IP blocks as “scammers, spammers, badporn,” and those sortsa things. I’ve been running it on my workstation as a way to avoid a lot of the popup and cookie tracking systems out there, and so far so good, but there’s new blocks being added all the time, so I just don’t know.<\/p>\n
It’s tempting to put together a script that humans wouldn’t see, but the spammer scripts *would* that looks up their IP, and sends the comment to the Abuse@ for the IP block owner… That’d be fun.<\/p>\n
Either that, or find the $10\/hr guy in the Bay Area (or wherever he is), who’s been writing the commenting scripts (and the Google silliness that finds new posts) and offer him $100 for his customer list as “Market Research.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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