Prometheus 6

I just unpublished the second of two comment spams I got today.

I know some of you will wonder what the hell I'm complaining about with only two spams. Well, I only have two because I've taken some pretty draconian prophylactic measures. I've banned about six whole networks in Israel two or three in Europe and one in White Plains, NY.

The last one is the one that annoys me, That was this morning's spam. And it annoys me because this afternoon's spam was identical…and came from Europe. So it's not a simple matter of dynamic IP addresses for dialup users. Especially since not a single IP I've banned belongs to an ISP.

Now, I've already found one IP with interesting qualities.

In case you missed the point, I've just demonstrated that there is at least one IP address that is

1. on the Internet as opposed to in the private network address spaces
2. no one lays claim to
3. is the origin point of a spammer or spider that targets weblogs

The APNIC response had a link to an explanation of the Early Registration process, and being old as dirt and a reader of Boardwatch Magazine back before Jack Rickard was undercut I'm familiar with it. These were the pre-ARIN IP numbers, the ones assigned before the Internet went public and blew up.

This digital wild west thing is a pain in the ass.