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March 15, 2006

Attack of the killer comments.

No one is fond of spammers, they are an annoyance. They are especially evil when combined with the GreyMatter blogging system.

From the GreyMatter forums:

Over the past couple of months, several of my GM accounts have experience persistant and serious spam attacks on gm-comments.cgi forcing me to spend a lot of time removing the spam comments, collecting malicious IP addresses and banning them from my servers. On a couple of occaisions, the attacks were so ferocious that they left the comment.cgi programs open, causing all sorts of resource overload on the server.

gm-comments.cgi does not play well with others. Admittedly, it takes someone to abuse it to cause problems. Which, of course, happened.

This has even caused problems with other processes unable to write to disk for a substantial period of time, DNS resolution and not a little hair pulling.

Scrawled illegibly by Meathe at March 15, 2006 11:23 AM

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