Ultralab’s Mark Constable found and emailed the following link:

http://slartibartfast.ultralab.net/tomsmith/?q=node/view/120#comment

Basically, Tom Smith from The Other Blog (which I’m loving the new look of) wrote some stuff and did some work with us on anti-spam. If you click the link, you’ll find that the spammers spammed the anti-spam thread.

I’m constantly battling with spammers attacking the blogs hosted on ‘Captain Birdseye’ (my trusty server). Birdseye goes out every morning for me pulling RSS feeds from around the Internet and while she’s doing that, I’m in the SQL database blocking IP addresses that spam some entries on blogs hosted on Birdseye. I’ve found some truly bizarre stuff while exploring the IP records.

On Thursday last week I headed round to the server ‘Slartibartfast’, with Jonathan to try to begin to understand the spamming on Slartibartfast.

Slartibartfast hosts blogs for other Ultranauts. Reviewing my Old Blog, (which still exists on ‘Slartibartfast’, but redirects to ‘Birdseye’) we discovered some interesting stuff about ‘Movable Type and how it works and stores comments.

A year ago action was taken to try and stop spam on Slartibartfast, and on the active hosted blogs, that seems to have worked with an anti-spam field added and required to confuse the robots trying to post rubbish.