http://eric.diluccio.fr Stardust and other Intergalactic considerations Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:51:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://eric.diluccio.fr/blog/2009/09/99-955/ http://eric.diluccio.fr/blog/2009/09/99-955/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:44:24 +0000 Eric http://eric.diluccio.fr/?p=657 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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