{"id":87614051,"date":"2006-05-01T22:52:26","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T06:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614051"},"modified":"2006-05-14T07:43:05","modified_gmt":"2006-05-14T15:43:05","slug":"anti-anti-spam-backlash-bluefrog-must-be-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614051","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Anti-Spam Backlash &#8211; BlueFrog must be working!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bluesecurity.com\">BlueSecurity<\/a> is making enough of a dent in spam (or at least is annoying enough to the spammer community) that the spammers are attempting to strike back.  I&#8217;ve been using BlueFrog, which automatically reports spammers who fail to comply with the Do Not Intrude registry, for a few months, and today, for the first time, I received about eight anti-BlueSecurity spams on my work account, all claiming that I would receive many more of these unless I removed myself from the registry immediately.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve reported them as spam, of course, so we&#8217;ll see what happens.<\/p>\n<p>As of right now, it appears that BlueSecurity.com is not responding, which means one of two things, I suspect:<\/p>\n<p>1) The spammers, having given up on spamming addresses in the DNI, have started DOSing the BlueSecurity site.<br \/>\nor<br \/>\n2) Someone posted this information to SlashDot before I did.<\/p>\n<p>Still: What&#8217;s really sad is that someone, somewhere, is going to buy a sexual enhancement pill tonight because they got a spam.  (Don&#8217;t get me started on why you&#8217;d do this).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like BlueSecurity is making enough of a dent in spam (or at least is annoying enough to the spammer community) that the spammers are attempting to strike back. I&#8217;ve been using BlueFrog, which automatically reports spammers who fail to comply with the Do Not Intrude registry, for a few months, and today, for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87614051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87614051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87614051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87614051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87614051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}