escape to insanity

I was getting hit pretty hard by spam comments for a while (thanks to the excellent Akismet Wordpress plugin, none of it actually made its way past the filters), so I ended up banning the IP address responsible for 99% of it.

Life was good.

And now they’re back. Different IP, but same base range. So, that entire range is now banned from this site. Don’t worry - most people won’t be affected (and by most people I mean the two dozen people that ever read this site). The IP in question is a fairly well known, fairly prolific spam center.

So goodbye, 85.255.117.* — you won’t be missed.

One of my e-mail addresses has started receiving more than a healthy helping of spam in recent days. I’m not really sure how, and it’s not important anyway. There are probably a few different ways it could have happened; it doesn’t really matter that much to me.

What does matter is that it’s happening, and that I want it not to be happening. So… in the interest of trying to stem the flow, I’m going to completely disable the account for now. I’m hoping that after a week or two of bounce-back undeliverable mail, somewhere along the line my e-mail address will get removed from whatever lists it made itself onto.

What that means is that anyone who has that e-mail as the primary address for me is going to need to get that updated. As of this coming Sunday 6 April 2008 - one week from today - I’ll be disabling my ‘admin’ e-mail. Most people I know should have some alternate form of contacting me - phone, or another e-mail address.

So… heads up.

See you on the flip side.