1 Spam Bots: another pain in the ass {anchor:Spam Bots: another pain in the ass} As you might have noticed the registering link has disappeared from the top of the page, that's because a few spam bots have crawled into the blog, found the registering interface, registered and attached html pages with the usual spam subject: viagra, grow larger, etc... I noticed that spam bots made they way into the bliki because when I checked my stats I had 2000+ visitors for this month (I usually receive around 400 monthly) and most of the pages were going directly to a page of a new user. Anyway I removed the 3 users that were created by bots, along with the attachments and snips they created. Also to avoid further spam bot harassment I've disabled registration. So from now on if you want to comment any posts (you probably won't want anyway) you have two options or you already have a user on the system, or you comment as [anonymous].\\ If by any reason you still want a user in this bliki you can always email me requesting a user. 2006-10-19 20:30:01.954 2006-10-19 20:30:01.954 Can't the bots use the anonymous login? And I want a login to comment your posts. Specially the ones related with Java :P jff 2006-10-23 08:09:54.868 2006-10-23 08:09:54.765 Well there might be some bots that try to login as anonymous and without password and post spam on comments. Although none of those have hit the blog, only ones that would try to register, login and post stuff. I guess for now the situation is controlled. If needed I'll get the anonymous account with a password an explain in [anonymous] what you should do in order to post, mostly just tell you what password to use. 2006-10-23 20:26:33.978 2006-10-23 20:26:33.868