As a general courtesy to other bloggers out there that may already be affected like this site is or likely to be affected, I wish to point out the source of this site’s recent spam banes. Specifically, it comes from what is known as ‘link dumping’ and seems to be a recent push by shady operators to shove their advertising down one’s throat in the same fashion as spam email.

You may previously have noticed on this site stupid spam messages stating that one can buy from some poker website, some pharmacy or some other nonsense with links supplied to all these goobledegook named addresses. Interestingly though, every single one of these promoted addresses possesses the same specific ip address. Namely 161.58.59.8 .

Each of the supposed ‘posters’ promoting those websites sharing the same ip can possess a different ip address. Sometimes the last digit of their individual ip’s can vary over time, but they are unified in what software they use i.e. – ‘Link Dumper’.

That software comes from a site (which I’m not prepared to mention here) with an ip address value of 66.79.180.50 . That software itself is specifically programmed to search sites and flood their freely accessible comments or threads sections with their advertising nonsense. Weblogs are therefore prime potential candidates for them.

I therefore suggest that other bloggers try to bar these two ip addresses from both coming to and going from their sites. I’m not sure about those with hosted accounts like Blogger, or those using comments hosting software like Haloscan. I imagine those servers will have general protection against these nuisances. But if not and one does get affected by it you may have to contact your relevant support and where possible, notify them of abuse by these two related parties.
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UPDATE: It seems that an IP address with the values 12.163.72.13 is also behind the spam advertising nonsense. That appears to maybe be behind some of the other IP address values and also joins them on the ban list.