[wp-forums] Spam from ShenZhen

[Otto]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Jan Dembowski <jan at dembowski.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:35 AM, esmi wrote:
>> We've also been getting a lot of this spam on the quirm.net forums. I did
>> some rough IP checking about 2 weeks ago but couldn't even pin it down to a
>> given block. My guess is that this is some kind of spam farm.
>>
> It's getting pretty ugly spam wise. This morning there was 542 posts in the
> queue for the last 10 hours. Spot checking the spam accounts showed a lot
> of ShenZhen locations.

Yeah. And? That's sorta what the spam queue is for.

We're not trying to block them from sending us their spam. We're
sending it all through to Akismet anyway. As long as it's showing up
in the spam queue, then that's success.

-Otto