> McColo and Atrivo were disconnected for much larger sins than spamming > someone's wordpress blog.
Many of you do not understand the scope of "just spamming a Wordpress blog". This is a huge business. Shady "SEO" companies are charging individuals at least $250 per month to use their spam tools of choice to spam forums and Wordpress blogs. I got one of the major players on the run right now because he cannot seem to keep his "business page" hosted with a company longer than a few weeks and I keep playing whack-a-mole with him. Guess what? Innocent people's websites are being deranked on Google for hiring these guys with their shady backlink services and their money is being taken. Yes I know they got what they deserved, but it's so obvious with these backlink guys using cheap virtual private servers for a month, getting shutdown and getting a new IP address that something needs to be done. XSServer could have simply amused me with a default auto reply to make it look like they are doing something. > Will your host allow you to block IP ranges? Not the solution I was looking for because blocking IP ranges and using scripts / services / etc like Akismet or others is simply ignoring the problem, not solving it. For folks who say hosting companies are not helpful: Linode, Amazon, BurstNET, Ubiquity Servers and others are extremely responsive to abuse complaints. -- --C "The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them." - Sir William Clayton
