Eric di Luccio
Stardust and other Intergalactic considerations
09.22
2009

by Eric

in opinion, science

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99.955%

Over the last months, I have been monitoring in disbelief the number of “comments-spams ” that hit my website: 4,464 since March 23. Too me, it is way too many for a website that gets an average of 10 legitimate visits per days. I absolutely can’t wrap my mind around the fact that somewhere an army of bots/zombie PC are burning a lot of CPU and bandwidth to vomit a load of nonsense comments on websites…Thankfully, the spam gets caught in powerful filters such as Akismet. So far 99.955% of the comments are junk on my site…It leads to the question: “How much energy can we save if we take down all the spam-servers?, how much bandwidth can we save?

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