Professor Mark J. Perry's Blog for Economics and Finance
Last night about 8 p.m. Carpe Diem was hit with a major spam attack from China, where somebody posts comments with advertising on dozens, sometimes hundreds of posts. Luckily, I caught it while it was going on, and I was able to stop it by changing the settings and restricting comments temporarily. I just changed the setting back to normal, so you can post comments now as usual. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Dr. Mark J. Perry is a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan. Perry holds two graduate degrees in economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) from George Mason University near Washington, D.C. In addition, he holds an MBA degree in finance from the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. In addition to a faculty appointment at the University of Michigan-Flint, Perry is also a visiting scholar at The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
6 Comments:
You must have said something on Kudlow that pissed them off.
:)
Thanks
How'd they get past the "word verification" field?
Bret: I assume they are doing it manually, one post at a time.
See what happens when you post about pandas?
It's time for some trade protection. Block Chinese blog imports :)
Insane, really.
The worst part is that the only reason such spam attacks serve any purpose at all is that just enough idiots respond that it's actually worth it to them to do it.
If everyone actually ignored spam (and it's not like it's hard -- 99.99% is blatant CRAP from a shotgun blast, no matter who you are) then there wouldn't be any. But one out of 100,000 people are stupid enough to Not Get It, respond, and make it work for them.
Just Insane.
That's what we really need. Hook all little kids up to electric buzzers that give a painful shock, then set them to reading e-mail, and everytime they do anything but hit "delete" the instant any obvious spam comes into their mailboxes, ZZAAAPP.
In a couple years, no more spam, ever.
:oP
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No, that's not a serious suggestion... DUH.
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