I hadn't checked my log file in a while for my Lime Daley contact page, but happened to check it today.  There have been 438 spams sent in the last two months, and 2 legitimate emails.  The spam filter (I wrote it - which is probably why it works - that my site isn't big enough for the spammers to work on getting around it, it is rather trivial, the spam filter for this blog site is better than that one, and somewhat more difficult to get around automatically) did its job 100% of the time.  The two emails went through without delay, and the 438 emails were saved in a log.

I suppose I don't really need to save the log, though it is interesting - since I have a nice big list of spammer IPs, plus the sort of text and URLs they like to link to, so it would probably be useful to save somewhere in a big database or something.

posted by Jon Daley on August 30, 2007, 10:57 PM
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