Fight back with Akismet
I’ve started to use a great extension to Akismet which tallies the spam caught by IP and web site. The Akismet Worst Offenders Extension by Rich Boakes shows that around a third of the spam in the last 15 days related to an IP and web site hosted by Inhoster. I’ve tried complaining to Inhoster before without success but then found an e-mail to its upstream provider, WV Fiber, produced good results. So, I’ve just fired off another e-mail to WV Fiber. Akismet has caught 2,027 spam in the last fifteen days so it’s time for me to fight back. 30 June: A big milestone reached today – over 10,000 (10,124 as I write) spam caught by Akismet since 1 April. My complaints to Inhoster (upstream WV Fiber), netcathost (upstream ISprime) appear to be having a positive effect as spam from these sources has stop…- it’s started again. Inhoster and netcathost are based in the Ukraine (a country well known for spammers) but their upstream providers are in the USA – a real weakness for the spammers as complaints do produce results. Update 4 July: I’ve e-mailed WV Fiber’s senior management and Inhoster again as the comments are coming in faster than ever. Spam caught total now 11,206.
