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Everybody hates spam. From penis pills, to texas holdem, to phentermine and hoodia, to asbestos lawyers. As a systems administrator, part of my job -- part of my lifestyle -- is to fight spam. I fight spam at work, I fight spam at home -- it is required of me, as a node on the Internet, as a human on the Internet, and as a consumer of Internet. I fight spam at every level, from email, to web, to the information that I seek out. There's a lot of it out there, and there is even more than that.

I've been plagued by spam email for over 10 years now. Having established my permanent email address that long ago. I posted on Usenet. I've posted in mailing lists. I've posted web pages, blog entries, and comments on other people's blogs. None of my previous dealings is any contribution to the usefulnes of my mailbox. Unfortunately.

So down the road, I've been using content-management-systems. Initially, I used PHPNuke, and recently established Drupal as my CMS of choice. That's let me setup things like this, this, this, and a couple of others. I use Gallery for the rest of of my projects. But what I've found, is the embodiment of annoyance.

Kiddies are running scripts against my webserver -- against the CMS. Tens of thousands of 'Texas Holdem' comments attached to Drupal nodes. And I hate it. At first, the script kiddies would post en masse from one IP. Now I've noticed that there are botnets of these scripts, all posting from seemingly random IPs.

I've added some of the recurring IPs to my iptables lists of people that suck, including a specific fucked up flacid jerk-off of a person. But what else to do? The tools that come with Drupal don't quite help with abuse of this magnitude. I'm kinda at a loss!

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