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	<title type="text">Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog &#187; Spam Watch</title>
	<subtitle type="text">News and views from a Software Architect and Web Entrepreneur on Java, PHP and Web 2.0 Technologies.</subtitle>

	<updated>2009-10-11T17:57:52Z</updated>
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		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Product Announcement: Comment Guard Lite - Lightweight, Super-Fast Comment Spam Protection for WordPress Blog]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=10873</id>
		<updated>2009-06-14T00:46:20Z</updated>
		<published>2009-06-14T00:46:20Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Comment Guard Plugin" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Enterprise Software and Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="How To" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Pro Blogging" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="WordPress" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="WordPress Plugin" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[We are about to release a new blog (WordPress) comment spam protection software. It has been extensively tested for over two months. We will deploy it first across our network of highly popular blogs. The new software named Comment Guard Lite was developed after gaining extensive experience with the leading Comment spam protection software - [...]]]></summary>
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Spam + Donation = Spamation? Is it acceptable?]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=5609</id>
		<updated>2009-03-02T12:03:05Z</updated>
		<published>2009-03-02T12:00:54Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Africa" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I got this interesting spam in my comments today:
Please, do not delete the given message. Money obtained from spam will go to the help hungry to children ugandf
What do I do?
I figured someone who can stoop so low as to spam is not likely to donate his ill-gotten wealth. Secondly there are better ways to [...]]]></summary>
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	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[From Russia With Love]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/from-russia-with-love/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=2960</id>
		<updated>2008-10-21T15:23:38Z</updated>
		<published>2008-10-21T15:23:38Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Russian Spam" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Have you *ever* received genuine Russian comments on English blogs?
I receive many many of Russian comments everyday. Previously I used to translate them because my blog is multi-lingual and Russian is one of the 32 languages this blog is available, thanks to automated. Down the road, I realized that I never got a single genuine [...]]]></summary>
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	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Coward Spammer Breaks From Prison And Kills His Family And Thankfully Himself]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=2700</id>
		<updated>2008-07-28T12:59:24Z</updated>
		<published>2008-07-28T12:59:24Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Country" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Life" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="USA" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Bennett  Colorado" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Eddie Davidson" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="FBI" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam King" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="United States" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Only four days after escaping from a federal minimum-security prison in Florence, Colorado "Spam King" Eddie Davidson, 35, killed his wife, baby daughter and finally himself.

Davidson shot and killed his wife in her former home in Bennett, Colorado along with his three-year-old daughter. Davidson's 14-year old daughter was wounded in the neck but was able [...]]]></summary>
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		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[MySpace Wins $234 Million Verdict Against Notorious Spammers (Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines)]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/myspace-wins-234-million-verdict-against-notorious-spammers-sanford-wallace-and-walter-rines/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=2554</id>
		<updated>2008-05-14T00:19:44Z</updated>
		<published>2008-05-14T00:16:37Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="MySpace" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Social Networking" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="California Anti Phishing Act" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="CAN-SPAM" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Cyber Promotions" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Cyberpromo" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Damages" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="MySpace Spam" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Odysseus Marketing" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Sanford Wallace" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spamford" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spamford Wallace" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="TechCrunch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Walter Rines" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[MySpace was awarded $234 million in statutory damages, the largest ever anti-spam verdict made under CAN-SPAM and apparently under any law. This is also the first time damages have been awarded under the California Anti Phishing Act.

The case was won against two notorious spammers, Sanford "Spamford" Wallace and Walter Rines. 
Wallace and Rines spammed MySpace [...]]]></summary>
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		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Dating Spam: With Love From Russia]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/dating-spam-with-love-from-russia/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/dating-spam-with-love-from-russia/</id>
		<updated>2008-03-23T04:12:30Z</updated>
		<published>2008-03-21T10:21:46Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Country" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Hair" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Korea" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Russia" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I received a non-typical email spam, a well written (spams are usually filled with bad spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, especially those from Dakar, Senegal for example) email from Maria Wyatt (most likely forged) claiming to be Nadezhda from Saint-Petersburg in Russia. Couple of photos were also included.

The full email without the headers:
Hello!
How are you? [...]]]></summary>
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		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Why Do Bloggers Get Comments With Strange Author Names]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-do-bloggers-get-comments-with-strange-author-names/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-do-bloggers-get-comments-with-strange-author-names/</id>
		<updated>2008-03-13T02:54:08Z</updated>
		<published>2008-03-13T02:54:08Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Pro Blogging" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="WordPress" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Would you approve a (blog) comment where the commenter's name is "Best Way To Loose Weight"? Any sane blogger would never approve such comments even if it is relevant to context. Do you know why?

As comment author is linked with author URL, such comments are obviously intended to highlight the keywords he wants to increase [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-do-bloggers-get-comments-with-strange-author-names/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
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		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Comment Guard Pro (WordPress Comment Spam Protection Software) Released]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/comment-guard-pro-wordpress-comment-spam-protection-plugin-released/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/comment-guard-pro-wordpress-comment-spam-protection-plugin-released/</id>
		<updated>2008-03-03T18:13:47Z</updated>
		<published>2008-03-03T14:40:29Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Comment Guard Plugin" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="PHP" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Pro Blogging" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Programming" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Technology" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web 2.0" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="WordPress" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="WordPress Plugin" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Say" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Software Review" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I am very happy to announce the much-awaited release of Comment Guard Pro for WordPress blogs. Comment Guard Pro is designed to unobtrusively protect your blog against all types of comment spams - trackback spam, pingback spam, robotic spam using comment form, human submitted spam (where the spammers actually goes to your site to spam [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/comment-guard-pro-wordpress-comment-spam-protection-plugin-released/#comments" thr:count="4"/>
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	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[ContactThem Network Perfects Distributed Spamming]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/contactthem-network-perfects-distributed-spamming/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/contactthem-network-perfects-distributed-spamming/</id>
		<updated>2008-03-03T14:36:50Z</updated>
		<published>2008-03-03T14:36:50Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Dirty work" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I have received dozens of spams from ContactThem Network affiliates who follow this simple template:
Hi,

We've seen your website at http://blog.taragana.com/ [Full URL here]
and we love it!
We see that your traffic rank is [######]
and your link popularity is [##].
Also, you have been online since [#/#/####]. 
With that kind of traffic, we will pay you up to [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/contactthem-network-perfects-distributed-spamming/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
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		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Overview of Exploits Block List - XBL (Spamhaus.org) in Comment Spam Protection]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/overview-of-exploits-block-list-xbl-spamhausorg-in-comment-spam-protection/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/overview-of-exploits-block-list-xbl-spamhausorg-in-comment-spam-protection/</id>
		<updated>2008-02-06T00:31:22Z</updated>
		<published>2008-02-06T00:31:22Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Comment Guard Plugin" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="DNSBL" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Pro Blogging" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web 2.0" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="WordPress" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Leverage" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Protocol" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Spamhaus Exploits Block List (XBL) is a realtime database of IP addresses of hijacked PCs infected by illegal 3rd party exploits, including open proxies (HTTP, socks, AnalogX, wingate, etc), worms/viruses with built-in spam engines, and other types of trojan-horse exploits. I was recently testing this list againt spam email. Here are few observations from [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/overview-of-exploits-block-list-xbl-spamhausorg-in-comment-spam-protection/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/overview-of-exploits-block-list-xbl-spamhausorg-in-comment-spam-protection/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Is SplogSplot (Splog Detection Site) Dead?&#8230; I Hope Not]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-splogsplot-splog-detection-site-dead-i-hope-not/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-splogsplot-splog-detection-site-dead-i-hope-not/</id>
		<updated>2008-01-20T04:30:44Z</updated>
		<published>2008-01-20T04:30:44Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Vegas" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[SplogSpot is service that keeps track of spam blogs or Splogs. The splogspot spam database can be queried by using the SplogSpot API. A nice idea. Is the service appears to be dead since March 2007?

The recently updated splog dump from SplogSpot has the latest entry from 20th March 2007:
Casino Club Las Vegas - 07:45 [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-splogsplot-splog-detection-site-dead-i-hope-not/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
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		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[How Google Product / API Pages Can be Spammed]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-google-product-api-pages-can-be-spammed/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-google-product-api-pages-can-be-spammed/</id>
		<updated>2008-01-10T11:17:10Z</updated>
		<published>2008-01-09T16:18:33Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Company" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Google dutifully provides a forum for each product / API they launch. They also graciously decided to display 3 recent articles from their forum on their highly ranked product page. It appears that the forums are not actively monitored by Google staff as they are already being abused for spamming. Here is an example (click [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-google-product-api-pages-can-be-spammed/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
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		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Calling Card of Nigerian Scammers]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/calling-card-of-nigerian-scammers/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/calling-card-of-nigerian-scammers/</id>
		<updated>2008-01-07T15:54:50Z</updated>
		<published>2008-01-07T15:54:50Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="419 Scam" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Africa" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Country" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Nigeria" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Fact" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Met" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[You can safely delete any messages contains with:
"correspondence may come to you as a surprise due to the fact that we have not met"

This appears to be an often repeated phrase of nigerian scammers these days and is worth searching for in content of your emails for direct deletion (nuke).
]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/calling-card-of-nigerian-scammers/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/calling-card-of-nigerian-scammers/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[My First Facebook Spam]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/my-first-facebook-spam/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/my-first-facebook-spam/</id>
		<updated>2007-12-27T17:00:36Z</updated>
		<published>2007-12-27T17:00:36Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Company" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Facebook" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Social Networking" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web 2.0" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[My first Facebook spam:

Subject: Mi Chai invited you to join the group "I'M A CHRISTIAN..AND I'M PROUD TO SAY IT!!"&#8230;
Mi invited you to join the Facebook group "I'M A CHRISTIAN..AND I'M PROUD TO SAY IT!!".

Mi says, "Join this group! See www . patientking . blogspot . com and leave me a msg on whether u [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/my-first-facebook-spam/#comments" thr:count="1"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/my-first-facebook-spam/feed/atom/" thr:count="1"/>
		<thr:total>1</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Song: Witty Take on Spam - I&#8217;ve Got Mail]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/song-witty-take-on-spam-ive-got-mail/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/song-witty-take-on-spam-ive-got-mail/</id>
		<updated>2007-12-23T17:38:48Z</updated>
		<published>2007-12-21T16:00:21Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Humor" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Multimedia" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I've got mail is a witty take on spam from Richter Scales. It is a 2007 CARA Nominee in Best Humor Song category. Listen to find how spam gives meaning in life, not to mention three additional inches and more.
]]></summary>
<link href="http://www.richterscales.com/assets/audio/rsrecordings/IveGotMail.mp3" rel="enclosure" length="3643538" type="audio/mpeg" />
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/song-witty-take-on-spam-ive-got-mail/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/song-witty-take-on-spam-ive-got-mail/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Comment Guard Pro: Over 1 Million Comment Spam Blocked]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/comment-guard-pro-over-1-million-comment-spam-blocked/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/comment-guard-pro-over-1-million-comment-spam-blocked/</id>
		<updated>2008-03-03T17:59:11Z</updated>
		<published>2007-12-20T19:33:21Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Comment Guard Plugin" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Pro Blogging" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web 2.0" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="WordPress" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="WordPress Plugin" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Leverage" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Quality Assurance" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Ever since we installed Comment Guard Pro, anti comment-spam plugin on this blog, it stopped over 1 millon spam comments (1001011 spam comments were blocked by Angsuman's Comment Guard plugin in 335 days 8 hours 38 minutes. 99.338 % of the comments received during this time were spam.) so far (look in the right sidebar [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/comment-guard-pro-over-1-million-comment-spam-blocked/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/comment-guard-pro-over-1-million-comment-spam-blocked/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[6 Simple &amp; Safe Postfix Changes for Over 95% Spam Reduction]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/6-simple-safe-postfix-changes-for-over-95-spam-reduction/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/6-simple-safe-postfix-changes-for-over-95-spam-protection/</id>
		<updated>2007-11-19T03:00:59Z</updated>
		<published>2007-11-19T02:55:12Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Computer Security" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="How To" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Linux" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Open Source Software" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Hosting" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Lost" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Postfix" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Protocol" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="SMTP" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="The client" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I used to receive around 5,000-7,000 spams daily on angsuman [at] taragana [dot] com email which is publicly available on the internet. It was consuming too many productive hours daily to fight spam. I decided to fight back. To reduce the spams I first made changes to my postfix configuration with the aim to stop [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/6-simple-safe-postfix-changes-for-over-95-spam-reduction/#comments" thr:count="1"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/6-simple-safe-postfix-changes-for-over-95-spam-reduction/feed/atom/" thr:count="1"/>
		<thr:total>1</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[New Spamming Technique: Yahoo! Messenger Spamming From Myfreecamhost]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-spamming-technique-yahoo-messenger-spamming-from-myfreecamhost/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-spamming-technique-yahoo-messenger-spamming-from-myfreecamhost/</id>
		<updated>2007-11-05T07:33:21Z</updated>
		<published>2007-11-05T06:45:06Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Yahoo" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Either Yahoo! Messenger sponsors spammers (not that would surprise me) or Myfreecamhost has found a loophole in Yahoo Instant Messenger. 

I am daily receiving half a dozen, most likely automated, Yahoo instant messages  from various random email id's on myfreecamhost. Two examples below:
(11/05/2007 08:34:09 AM) kandy0002029@myfreecamhost.com: I thought you might like to watch my [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-spamming-technique-yahoo-messenger-spamming-from-myfreecamhost/#comments" thr:count="5"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-spamming-technique-yahoo-messenger-spamming-from-myfreecamhost/feed/atom/" thr:count="5"/>
		<thr:total>5</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Tired of Email Spam &amp; Fighting Back&#8230;]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/tired-of-email-spam-fighting-back/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/tired-of-email-spam-fighting-back/</id>
		<updated>2007-11-04T06:02:56Z</updated>
		<published>2007-11-04T06:02:56Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Linux" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Postfix" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="SMTP" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I finally grew tired of email spams, having to delete several thousand spams a day while fishing out for valid emails is no fun. Occasionally I deleted valid emails too in the process. I realized I was wasting valuable productive hours dealing with junk from cretins and morons (aka spammers). I decided to fight back.

I [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/tired-of-email-spam-fighting-back/#comments" thr:count="3"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/tired-of-email-spam-fighting-back/feed/atom/" thr:count="3"/>
		<thr:total>3</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Strong Anti-Email Spam Protection In Place&#8230;]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/strong-anti-email-spam-protection-in-place/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/strong-anti-email-spam-protection-in-place/</id>
		<updated>2007-11-04T05:39:22Z</updated>
		<published>2007-11-03T16:32:52Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="How To" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Linux" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="PayPal" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Postfix" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[We are tweaking our postfix servers to offer maximum spam protection upfront with helo checks, header checks, blacklist checks, RBL's and more. So far my daily spam count has dropped from about 3000-7000 spams / day to about 15-35 spams per day. It should drop even more as I added more RBL to my list [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/strong-anti-email-spam-protection-in-place/#comments" thr:count="1"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/strong-anti-email-spam-protection-in-place/feed/atom/" thr:count="1"/>
		<thr:total>1</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[How To View Full Email Headers in GMail]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-view-full-email-headers-in-gmail/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-view-full-email-headers-in-gmail/</id>
		<updated>2007-10-23T18:11:38Z</updated>
		<published>2007-10-23T18:08:26Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Computer Security" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="How To" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web 2.0" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="GMail" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Sometimes you need to view the full email headers to understand whether an email sender information or other details is faked or to even debug your MTA (my situation). Unlike other email clients GMail doesn't give you an intuitive way to get the full headers. Nevertheless when you know it, it is very simple. Here [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-view-full-email-headers-in-gmail/#comments" thr:count="3"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-view-full-email-headers-in-gmail/feed/atom/" thr:count="3"/>
		<thr:total>3</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Medical Terms for WordPress Blacklist To Protect You From Most Drug Spams]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/medical-terms-for-wordpress-blacklist-to-protect-you-from-most-drug-spams/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/medical-terms-for-wordpress-blacklist-to-protect-you-from-most-drug-spams/</id>
		<updated>2007-09-28T18:22:11Z</updated>
		<published>2007-09-28T18:11:32Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="How To" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Open Source Software" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Pro Blogging" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web 2.0" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="WordPress" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Texas" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Xanax" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Just copy-n-paste the following word list to Comment Blacklist section in Options->Discussion (in WordPress administration) for protection against the most common types of medical / drug related comment spams. The list was derived by analyzing hundreds of thousands of spams.

citalopram
cymbalta
lexapro
lorazepam
valium
paxil
levitra
oxycontin
tramadol
clomid
ultram
doxycycline
lipitor
valtrex
cialis
viagra
hydrocodone
percocet
oxycodone
adderall
propecia
xanax
ambien
ephedra
fioricet
texas holdem
adipex
phentermine
Additionally you may also want to add these words for protection against other type of [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/medical-terms-for-wordpress-blacklist-to-protect-you-from-most-drug-spams/#comments" thr:count="6"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/medical-terms-for-wordpress-blacklist-to-protect-you-from-most-drug-spams/feed/atom/" thr:count="6"/>
		<thr:total>6</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[1/2 Million+ Spam Comments Blocked By Comment Guard Pro; Zero False Positive]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/12-million-spam-comments-blocked-by-comment-guard-pro-zero-false-positive/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/12-million-spam-comments-blocked-by-comment-guard-pro-zero-false-positive/</id>
		<updated>2007-10-04T05:01:45Z</updated>
		<published>2007-09-28T15:53:58Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Comment Guard Plugin" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="PHP" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Pro Blogging" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Programming" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web 2.0" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="WordPress" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="WordPress Plugin" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="More" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[508903 spam comments were blocked by Angsuman's Comment Guard plugin in 253 days 21 hours 54 minutes. 99.503% of the comments received during this time were spam.
 - All these spams for this blog alone. Check my right sidebar for the latest stats on Comment Guard Pro (pre-release version) for this blog.
We are working hard [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/12-million-spam-comments-blocked-by-comment-guard-pro-zero-false-positive/#comments" thr:count="1"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/12-million-spam-comments-blocked-by-comment-guard-pro-zero-false-positive/feed/atom/" thr:count="1"/>
		<thr:total>1</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Technorati Succumbs To Ringtone Spams]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/technorati-succumbs-to-ringtone-spams/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/technorati-succumbs-to-ringtone-spams/</id>
		<updated>2007-11-18T15:55:12Z</updated>
		<published>2007-09-26T04:24:11Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Technology" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web 2.0" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Cell Phone" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Gadgets" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Green" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Who tags ringtone or ringtones? &#8230; sploggers, who else? Ringtone and ringtones are two of the most popular tags on technorati and displayed on its front page. It makes me wonder if anyone actually looks at what information is displayed on their front pages. I dug in further to look at the contents of one [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/technorati-succumbs-to-ringtone-spams/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/technorati-succumbs-to-ringtone-spams/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Abusing Comment Name field for SEO.. No Sir]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/abusing-comment-name-field-for-seo-no-sir/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/abusing-comment-name-field-for-seo-no-sir/</id>
		<updated>2007-09-09T13:54:47Z</updated>
		<published>2007-09-09T13:54:47Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Comment Guard Plugin" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Pro Blogging" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="SEO" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web 2.0" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="WordPress" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="WordPress Plugin" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Sometimes I see comments where the name of the person is not really his name but a popular keyword which obviously links to his website. While I understand the need to have link-love for useful comments and even encourage it, the name field shouldn't be abused by using keywords like "Web Banner Design", for example. [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/abusing-comment-name-field-for-seo-no-sir/#comments" thr:count="8"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/abusing-comment-name-field-for-seo-no-sir/feed/atom/" thr:count="8"/>
		<thr:total>8</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Spammer of the Day&#8230;]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/spammer-of-the-day/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/spammer-of-the-day/</id>
		<updated>2007-09-09T13:04:19Z</updated>
		<published>2007-09-09T13:04:19Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Spammer of the day - Florida based Interactive Marketing Group repeatedly spammed us 86 times abusing our Contact Form touting their ImgSite[dot]net service from the IP address  85.255.121.130. They are our spammer of the day. Their email is tech@imgsite.net. Feel free to email them and add them to your ban list.
]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/spammer-of-the-day/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/spammer-of-the-day/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Spam Me Ye Comment Spammers!]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/spam-me-ye-comment-spammers/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/spam-me-ye-comment-spammers/</id>
		<updated>2007-08-30T05:58:20Z</updated>
		<published>2007-08-26T16:11:15Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Comment Guard Plugin" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Pro Blogging" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web 2.0" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="WordPress" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="WordPress Plugin" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Things" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I have opened this blog for testing. Now any spammer can get to my moderation queue. I am trapping the spam comments for our Comment Guard plugin. So all spammers are welcome to spam me!

Obviously your comment will not go past the moderation queue and also several bad things will happen to you (spammer) but [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/spam-me-ye-comment-spammers/#comments" thr:count="3"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/spam-me-ye-comment-spammers/feed/atom/" thr:count="3"/>
		<thr:total>3</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[APEWS Black List Lists Most of India]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/apews-black-list-lists-most-of-india/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/apews-black-list-lists-most-of-india/</id>
		<updated>2007-08-24T14:33:55Z</updated>
		<published>2007-08-24T14:33:55Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Country" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="India" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Fact" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Friends" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[APEWS Black List is a joke. They have the whole netblock of VSNL, the Internet Backbone provider of India on their stupid blacklist! VSNL is, as far as I know, the only way you can get a static IP address in India. They are the first and the biggest ISP in India. So if your [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/apews-black-list-lists-most-of-india/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/apews-black-list-lists-most-of-india/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Is This Comment Spam?]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-this-comment-spam/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-this-comment-spam/</id>
		<updated>2007-08-20T15:29:02Z</updated>
		<published>2007-08-20T15:19:57Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Pro Blogging" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web 2.0" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="WordPress" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Dogs" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Things" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I received a rather interesting article as comment on my blog (quoted below). Let's see how this can be an intelligent spam by utilizing a less-known loophole in WordPress' in-built comment spam protection logic.

Valentine Water
Valentine’s day 2007 - and it is raining cats and dogs. Which is a particular good time to capture rain water [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-this-comment-spam/#comments" thr:count="4"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-this-comment-spam/feed/atom/" thr:count="4"/>
		<thr:total>4</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Rise Of Russian Comment Spam]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/rise-of-russian-comment-spam/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/rise-of-russian-comment-spam/</id>
		<updated>2007-08-12T11:53:13Z</updated>
		<published>2007-08-12T11:49:09Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="How To" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Pro Blogging" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web 2.0" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="WordPress" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I am seeing a steady and alarming rise of russian comment spams. Often people will not understand a comment in a foreign language and may approve it in a hurry. Such comment spams when translated may cause embarrassment for the blogger and also provide unwanted boost to comment spammers. I have a recommendation. Let's first [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/rise-of-russian-comment-spam/#comments" thr:count="3"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/rise-of-russian-comment-spam/feed/atom/" thr:count="3"/>
		<thr:total>3</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Nigerian Scam (419 Scam) As Comment Spam]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/nigerian-scam-419-scam-as-comment-spam/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/nigerian-scam-419-scam-as-comment-spam/</id>
		<updated>2007-08-12T11:57:28Z</updated>
		<published>2007-08-12T11:26:06Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Now I have seen it all. I received a nigerian scam as a comment spam on my blog. In case you are wondering Nigerian scam or 419 scam is conducted traditionally using unsolicited emails (spam) where you are promised millions of dollars for participating in a money laundering scheme. Comment spam has become a serious [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/nigerian-scam-419-scam-as-comment-spam/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/nigerian-scam-419-scam-as-comment-spam/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Desperate Spammers Do Bible Thumping]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/spammers-do-bible-thumping/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/spammers-do-bible-thumping/</id>
		<updated>2007-07-21T05:50:53Z</updated>
		<published>2007-07-17T06:13:47Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Humor" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Marketing" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Pro Blogging" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web 2.0" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="WordPress" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="July 16" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A spammer finally resorted to heavy quoting of scriptures from Bible just to get in his comments and a heavy one at that. But there's more much more. First lets see what he had to say:
Name: Master Conqueror &#124; E-mail: Master@Conqueror.co.jp &#124; URI: http: // www. congress check. com &#124; IP: 75.126.248.223 &#124; Date: July [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/spammers-do-bible-thumping/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/spammers-do-bible-thumping/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Downloading 1 of 4538 Mail Messages]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/downloading-1-of-4538-mail-messages/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/downloading-1-of-4538-mail-messages/</id>
		<updated>2007-03-30T15:58:10Z</updated>
		<published>2007-03-30T15:58:10Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="General" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I have just started downloading my email and guess what - I have 4538 email messages in queue, most of them obviously spam as even Bill Gates isn't that popular. Unfortunately my new stopgap setup doesn't have a bayesian filter setup so I will have to filter them manually. Please bear with me as I [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/downloading-1-of-4538-mail-messages/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/downloading-1-of-4538-mail-messages/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[What is SEO?]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/what-is-seo/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/what-is-seo/</id>
		<updated>2007-02-20T06:19:47Z</updated>
		<published>2007-02-19T15:44:28Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="SEO" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Keywords" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Search engine optimization (SEO) is a subset of search engine marketing, and deals with improving the number and/or quality of visitors to a web site from "natural" (aka "organic" or "algorithmic" search engine) listings. In effect, SEO is marketing by appealing to machine algorithms to increase search engine relevance and ultimately web traffic. This is [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/what-is-seo/#comments" thr:count="1"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/what-is-seo/feed/atom/" thr:count="1"/>
		<thr:total>1</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[WordPress Comment Spam Protection: Comment Guard Plugin Beta Release]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-comment-spam-protection-comment-guard-plugin-beta-release/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-comment-spam-protection-comment-guard-plugin-beta-release/</id>
		<updated>2008-03-26T01:46:37Z</updated>
		<published>2007-02-02T14:18:31Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="CMS Software" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Comment Guard Plugin" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Computer Security" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="How To" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="PHP" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Pro Blogging" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Technology" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web 2.0" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Hosting" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="WordPress" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="WordPress Plugin" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Cases" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Servlets" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Update: Comment Guard pro has been released. Please check the features here.
I am happy to announce the release of Comment Guard Plugin (0.2 Beta) for beta testing1.
Comment Guard plugin (for WordPress) unobtrusively prevents robotic spam2 (which accounts of over 99% of your spam) without causing any problem for humans. Humans will not feel any difference [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-comment-spam-protection-comment-guard-plugin-beta-release/#comments" thr:count="77"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-comment-spam-protection-comment-guard-plugin-beta-release/feed/atom/" thr:count="77"/>
		<thr:total>77</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[MySpace Sues Spam King Scott Richter For Sending MySpam]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/myspace-sues-spam-king-scott-richter-for-sending-myspam/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/myspace-sues-spam-king-scott-richter-for-sending-myspam/</id>
		<updated>2007-06-05T01:41:42Z</updated>
		<published>2007-01-23T18:47:16Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Computer Security" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="MySpace" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Social Networking" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Technology" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web 2.0" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Bankruptcy" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Breach" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Claim" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Court" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Damages" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Eliot spitzer" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Fraud" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Friends" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="New York" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Settlement" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[MySpace has filed suit against notorious spammer and self-proclaimed "spam king" Scott Richter and alleged cohorts for sending what could become known as MySpam. Yesterday MySpace filed a complaint in a District Court in Central District of California, USA demanding a jury trial against Richter's for sending spam messages disguised as communications from members to [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/myspace-sues-spam-king-scott-richter-for-sending-myspam/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/myspace-sues-spam-king-scott-richter-for-sending-myspam/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[On Comment Guard - WordPress Comment Spam Prevention Plugin]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/on-comment-guard-wordpress-comment-spam-prevention-plugin/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/on-comment-guard-wordpress-comment-spam-prevention-plugin/</id>
		<updated>2007-01-19T04:40:23Z</updated>
		<published>2007-01-18T18:17:45Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="CMS Software" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Comment Guard Plugin" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Pro Blogging" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Technology" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Hosting" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="WordPress" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Cases" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="China" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Iran" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Yesterday I talked about developing a comment spam prevention plugin with zero false positives. I am currently using it on all of our blogs. Today I want to talk briefly about its origin and goals. 

But first here are the stats from my Simple Thoughts blog:
1095 spam comments were blocked by Angsuman's Comment Guard plugin [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/on-comment-guard-wordpress-comment-spam-prevention-plugin/#comments" thr:count="20"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/on-comment-guard-wordpress-comment-spam-prevention-plugin/feed/atom/" thr:count="20"/>
		<thr:total>20</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Experimental Comment Spam Prevention System for WordPress Blogs]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/experimental-comment-spam-prevention-system-for-wordpress-blogs/</id>
		<updated>2007-01-17T18:29:56Z</updated>
		<published>2007-01-17T18:23:44Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="CMS Software" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Comment Guard Plugin" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Computer Security" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="How To" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Linux" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Pro Blogging" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Technology" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Hosting" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="WordPress" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[After being thoroughly fed-up with the state of WordPress comment spam protection, I have decided to solve the comment spam problem in WordPress blogs once and for all. I have installed an experimental commenting system which is designed to completely stop (read 100%) robotic spam (spam generated by bots and not humans) in all my [...]]]></summary>
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[The Big Void In WordPress Comment Spam Protection]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-big-void-in-wordpress-comment-spam-protection/</id>
		<updated>2007-01-16T16:15:01Z</updated>
		<published>2007-01-16T09:52:24Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="CMS Software" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Database" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Hardware" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Open Source Software" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Pro Blogging" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="RDBMS" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Tech Note" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Hosting" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="WordPress" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Cases" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Friends" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I have experiemented with all the available WordPress plugins for comment spam protection including but not limited to Bad Behaviour, Spam Karma 2, Akismet and built-in WordPress features like blacklists and moderation queue. We have to deal with tens of thousands of spam everyday. The key problem with all of these plugins is high rate [...]]]></summary>
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		<thr:total>9</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Meet The Top 10 Comment Spammers]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=1719</id>
		<updated>2007-01-03T14:54:40Z</updated>
		<published>2007-01-03T14:53:44Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="CMS Software" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Computer Security" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="How To" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Pro Blogging" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Technology" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Top 10" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Hosting" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="WordPress" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Houston" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Over the last couple of weeks I have been inundated with spam comments. I identified the culprits. Meet them, know them and block them.


1
Offence count
IP Address
Owned by


2
32715
82.137.247.131 &#038; 82.137.247.132
person:          Samer AL Nashef
address:         1 Mazza Autostrad Damascus, Syria. P.O.BOX [...]]]></summary>
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