Comment Spammers of the World Unite

Hmm. For the first time in ooh, nearly two years some comment spam has been getting through the to the site. I’m deleteing them as they come up, but annoyingly this has started just as I’m about to go away for the weekend (to New York, actually, thanks fer asking), so I expect that a deluge of the stuff will be waiting for me to delete on Tuesday.

I’m not sure if this means that my fiendish device of requiring you to preview your comments before you can post them has finally been defeated by the script kiddies, or whether someone is actually typing this stuff in manually, but it’s very annoying. That’s not going to stop me deleting them, though…

What really bothers me is that I don’t even understand what most of these spammers are selling: “Tamiflu” I get, and “V14gr4”, well, yeah, ok, but “Soma”? Wasn’t that the drug out of A Brave New World? Is it real? What does it do? And “xanax”? “Ambien”? I’m sure they’re making this stuff up.

I’m clearly out of touch…