I don’t usually have to deal with too much in the way of spam comments, as the Akismet plug-in seems to catch the majority of them for me. The last 24 hours has seen a lot of almost-believable comments that might have been approved, except they are copies of half-a-dozen originals, from similar IP addresses:<\/p>\n
\n“Just wanted to let you know the sidebar looks off in my browser with 1600\u00d71200 resolution.”<\/p>\n
“Hey, I haven\u2019t checked in here for a while, but I will put you on my bloglist so I don\u2019t forget to check back.”<\/p>\n
“I don\u2019t always agree with your posts, but this was dead on, way to go!”<\/p>\n
“Oooh, you\u2019re such an inspiration. I love this blog!”<\/p>\n
“Hmm. I am not so sure about that\u2026”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Also amusing is that the posts are recorded as coming from places like “cat.com”, “dog.com”, “strawberry.com”, and “chocolate.com”. I’m assuming they’re all from the same botnet (most are from the 173.234.x.x block and report emails at ymail.com).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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