Recently I have seen a couple of weird comments on my site. Not that having weird comments on a weird blog is weird, I have lots of proof that the internet is full with people like me.
But now there are some odd comments on my site:
Subject: No
I'm not agree with you. Sorry. Google google1980@gmail.com
http://www.google.com/index.html
The first time this happened I published it (anonymous comments are queued on my site). But now it happend again and again. Poor spelling in a "All your base are belong to us" way. And complete off topic.
But google for "I'm not agree with you." and you will find that this comment has been posted on lots of sites. And more then that, all the sites where the comment is listed are Drupal sites!
Since the link in the posting is innocent (google.com) I see no direct spam related reason for mass dumping this comment. Unless...
I think there are people out there, that are mass posting this innocent looking comment targeting at Drupal sites. And after some time, they will google for where the comment is published. And then they know, where they can push their real spamrun to.
What you should do:
- Check the source IP address of the comment, write it down, check who owns it and file a complaint at the provider. Some people think it is useless, I worked at a tier 2 ISP and we actually dropped customers that were abusing our IP space (but see below)
- Unpublish the comment! Dont let google index that you publish this comment. It is mass "spam", bad grammer and not relevant so unpublish
- Maybe even better: dont publish anonymous comment without approval. And be sure to read the Call for a Blogger's Code of Conduct
Regarding the first point, all my spam comments came from 87.230.18.23. When I visited this IP http://87.230.18.23/ I saw it was a node in the tor network, "Tor is used to anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications using the TCP protocol. I still filed an abuse report at abuse-mailbox: net-abuse @ hosteurope.de but since they host a tor site I dont think it will make a difference.
I hope people will act upon this posting, even if "you is not agreeing with me, otherwise you is sorry." :-)