Overnight, the spam tripled to over eight thousand.
"I realized that day that we were facing a new predator in the jungle, and if we didn't adapt -- and quickly -- it would be having us for dinner," he said.Posted by Dennis at November 9, 2004 7:55 PM
The latest wave of spam attacks focused on Six Apart's popular Movable Type publishing system, whose built-in comments do not require registration and allow bloggers to block comments only by IP address -- a restriction spammers can easily avoid.
"Movable Type's comment system is extremely open, which is incredible for a community tool, but unfortunately also highly susceptible to abuse," Allen said.
In late September, the trickle of comment spam swelled to a torrent. Flash programmer Michael Gunn's blog received 150 messages from "preteen" and "lolita." Web designer and developer D. Keith Robinson started getting 40 spams at a time.
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