Ouch, Paul. I heard that Sacramento Kings remark and it hurt. I'm still sopping up the tears over their loss.

6300 sounds like a personal attack, not a random spamming. I'm glad you were able to use MT Blacklist to bulk delete. I'll be interested to hear what a good internet lawyer can tell you about going after these assholes.

I'm not sure if any current laws deal with comment spam; I think they deal with e-mail only, but I could be wrong.

It's vandalism, pure and simple, just as if it had been done on physical property, and it should be treated as such.

I know it wasn't a personal attack because a quick check of these guys' IP address (216.79.8.162) on Google shows they've spammed sites before:

http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=%22216.79.8.162%22

I sent a note to BellSouth.net, which is where the stuff originates from. What I want, though, is to go after the spammers in court.

I knew there was a reason why I liked British women!

And I have a pretty good idea why they're not meeting any good men in NYC:

Because their idea of a good time is to get done up in 80's clothes and big hair; then hit the clubs where they have car-detailers from Jersey buy them $15 martinis.

So are they generally meeting uncultured, emasculated guidos who would never date them after "snogging" them in a drunk haze? You bet!

I am busy this Thursday and can't make the Booze Cruise, but would recommend it to anybody out there, if only for the presence of Timmie. Trust me: that girl's got legs that would make the Pope throw an orphan down a flight of stairs.

UK women seeking NYC men to snog, and they feel the American men are prudish...WTF?!? Where the hell are these women going to drink that they can't find men to screw in NYC? As stated, the UK women do not want to "groom" themselves, and that is where the problem lies. What hot NYC man (or any man for that matter) wants stubbly legs and jungle bush regardless of his drunken state?

I do like the "drunken serial monogamy" definition, though.

Cass - what the heck did the women of Europe do to you, anyway? A couple of weeks ago it was the French this week it's hairy British women...

Anyway, my experience with the Brits is that they are fastidious about personal grooming (yes, even their teeth - these days) and that, a few "Young Ones" style metal heads, punks and hippies, the women are meticulously groomed, hair and all. And there are a lot of plain British women over there but when a Brit is hot, she is HOT (Liz Hurley, Posh Spice, the girl I got lucky with in Liverpool, circa 1988 etc).

However, the term "snogged" should be banned. Only the Brits could come up with such a slimy, ugly word to describe something as great as making out.

I've never been there, but there's a place called The British Open on E. 59 Street.

http://www.baramerica.com/showcase/nyc/nyc_008.html

I wonder if snoggers hang out there.

yep - i had blacklist installed and in a span of 7 hours over the weekend (whilst i slumbered)i had over 160 spam comments. effing fantastic.

Paul, our blog didn't get hit this weekend - but I did; almost 6,000 spam emails, all the generic Viag*ra crap that sometimes sneaks past my spam filter. I had over 450 in my email account, and over 5,000 in the SpamAssassin folder. It's beyond reasonable at this point; not that it ever was, but it's time for S.W.A.T. teams.

Can you access your web site via ftp? You can easily ban addresses or blocks of addresses in a .htaccess file in the directory your blog is in.

The format is simple:

order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from 212.199.169.153
deny from 62.219.59.122
deny from 80.95.35
etc...

Note the 3rd line with only 3 numbers, it bans the entire block of addresses 80.95.35.0 to 80.95.35.255

As for clean up, it depends on the structure of the database but there should be a way to query it directly either from the command line or with a tool like phpMyAdmin (for MySQL) or similar. Search for a common string in the spam, and delete all the matching records.

There may be problems, however, if the database is structured in such a way that the number of comments or their ID numbers are kept in another table, such as the posts' table; that would cause errors when the program looks for deleted comments. The place to ask would be in the support forum for the blog software.

I am a well groomed British woman and I can't understand why you get the impression that UK women are so 'hot' for NYC men anyway. Certainly with the charisma of a fast food counter assistance and the depth of Britney Spears, I have no idea why you could possibly be under the impression that UK women find you attractive.

If we don't spend as much time grooming ourselves as our 'Sex And The City' counterparts, perhaps it's because we actually have lives over here and would rather just 'get out there' than worry about the re-growth of our pubic hair.

Maybe rather than just shagging any slimey, sleazy American dick prick that moved, we are a little more choosy than easy American women.

With attitudes like this, perhaps the Twin Towers deserved to be bombed.