I did report one splog hosted at wordpress.com and it was taken down the same day.

After a month of daily-refreshed registration-spams from Poland, I disabled Registration (no loss..). In the next few days, I will hack registration.php to install a little do-something I/O so their script gets a pass-through.

(Actually, I will probably first try to borrow the “Required Fields” code from comments.php. My spam-reg is not filling in names, etc.)

I doubt this Poland-domain is about Ads. It looks like a setup. It could be bad.

Though most comment-spam is certainly the Ad-game, a few are probably playing some other game.

For example, TanTanNoodles’ Simple Spam Filter reads all the words in all my spams. I had to make it quit doing that (every time), since it is ridiculous. But note, a simple little script has no problem accessing all my old spams. Obviously, I’m keeping them, and equally obviously, their retention could be handy to someone who appears to be stuffing ‘senseless’, ‘pointless’ spams in my box. Again, it could be a set-up.

Most spam is no more than what it looks like, but the sheer volume provides plenty of cover for more worrisome operations.

(I’ll put some spaces in the URL so as not to link to them.)
http:// www. earnersblog .com/ wordpress-mu/

Basically, they are using Google to search for text within wp-signup.php, which indicates a MU site. To make it even worse, they’re working on automating the process.

The good news is we can cut down on these splog registrations by making sure Google doesn’t index those files.

Ads.

Doesn’t take a genius to connect the dots mentioned in these comments.

And Keven is right. Something should have been done about Blogger years ago.

Sarah, if Dreamhost is refusing to kill spam blogs, then make a post on WebHostingTalk.com about it. It is a major forum for webhosts that sees tons of traffic everyday. I’ve seen the owners of all the major webhosts on that forum at one time or another.