[wp-forums] International spam day?

[Handy]

On 5/18/06, Jesse S <jesse at resiny.org> wrote:
>
> It's possible it's just me, and it's possible I missed something, but it
> sure feels like today and somewhat yesterday the spammers have gone mad.
> There's been a definite increase of spam threads in the forum for one
> thing.


Gawd damn.  You beat me to it, I was about to make the same comment here.

A friend of mine says his blogs have been getting bombarded, and 2 out of 3
> that I either run or contribute to are just getting hammered....it wasn't
> until I had a whole string of words blacklisted that things cooled off,
> but
> before that I was getting about a spam comment a minute...a network I'm in
> is also getting loaded with spam
>
> Either it's a big coincodence or something's happened....? (new spambot
> released?)
> _______________________________________________


I dunno, but my  Bad Behavior "blocked" count is climbing to dizzying new
heights.  Something's definitely going on.