After our article in this week's section on guestbook spamming, the Guardian's Tech letters section has been targeted for guestbook spam.
Operational note first: this may mean that it will be more difficult for us to spot your letters in the flood of rubbish. Next: we're going to try to work with the blogs which have been spammed in this way to get the IP details of the spammer; after our earlier entry about Spam King Alan Ralsky being jailed, it's probably not clever for this spammer to do this at this time. There's an offence known as "passing-off", I believe, off the top of my head..
What a delightful way for the person who's using EV1.net as a spam host to show that he's upset to have been uncovered by us. Of course we're disappointed that EV1 didn't manage to reply to us, or to Michael Pollitt, or to the Houston Chronicle (EV1's local paper) on the subject. They must have been too busy trying to track down the spammer, though given the length of time they've been doing it, we're starting to wonder how good they are at it.
Anyway, we'll collect lots of details and pass them on to our lawyers, who will surely want to help EV1 out and give the spammer what he deserves.
(Update: a little examination of the failed attempts, and the sites being linked to, shows that this is spam generated by user ID 900 for a bunch called search-and-seek.com - no, we won't link to it, thanks. The WHOIS data for search-and-seek is plainly false; so we've contacted its "upstream" host, which provides its Net connectivity, to see what they have to say.)
