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		<title>Comment Spam &#8211; the ugly side of blogging</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a few blogs here and there around the internet. One mistake I have made recently is to setup my comment settings with a notification email for any comments in moderation. This started off ok as I got notified about some legit comments that I went in and approved. But then things changed&#8230;My blogs [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have a few blogs here and there around the internet. One mistake I have made recently is to setup my comment settings with a notification email for any comments in moderation. This started off ok as I got notified about some legit comments that I went in and approved.</p>
<p>But then things changed&#8230;My blogs got noticed by comment spammers. Suddenly I was getting 100 emails a day, 200 a day, then all of a sudden in the thousands. This was all from just a few blogs. The spam boys had hit me big time. At first I just ignored these but over time my email download time was being taken up with all this crap.</p>
<p>It was now time to take action. I had to go into my blogs and turn off the notification. I had this happen to me in the past and things got so bad I ended up deleting the post that the spam comments kept getting added to. These people obviously use some automated stuff to seek out blogs they can leave a comment.</p>
<p>I guess they get some return from this activity as why would you do it otherwise but boy is it annoying. I do have akismet to try to filter out this crap but so many get past. I guess there are options I can tweak to make the akismet filter more effective.</p>
<p>Does this type of thing happen to you? If it does how do you manage the situation? Love to hear from you with real comments. <img src='http://robkeating.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>If you are interested in sport you can check out my sports blog. I don&#8217;t really give it the attention it deserves but hopefully you will be entertained by my posts. The one topic I always cover is the <a href="http://onemansportsnetwork.com/category/football/fifa-2010-world-cup-qualifying-football">Socceroos World Cup qualifying matches</a>. If that is something you want to follow head over to the onemansportsnetwork.com blog</p>
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