On my old, self-hosted blog, about a month ago, a spammer found me. I'd been using the tools built into Serendipity to attempt to manage the spam, but it takes quite a bit of time to get things configured properly, something I'm still working on, for experience's sake.
Since they started attacking me, I've recieved over 400 spam comments, mainly for online drugs, and gambling. Some of them seem to be specifically targeted towards my area of Ohio, mentioning casinos that are nearby. It's actually quite interesting.
Anyway, this is nothing new, but what kills me is that in order for it to be worth while for these spammers to clutter up my little no-name, backwater blog, somebody has to be clicking on these links. I don't mean on my blog, specifically, but on small blogs like mine. Somewhere, Aunt Fanny is going to Little Jimmy's blog, seeing an ad for casino discounts, clicking on it, and buying something, or giving her info, or something like that. If nobody did that, it wouldn't be worth spamming, and I wouldn't have to clean up my damn blog.
There's something to be said for non-user-friendly systems. They'd sure help to root out the trouble makers.
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