The title here is a bit of a defiant chant more than a Monty Python bit. As I may have mentioned before, spammers seem to get a perverted kick out of making blog posts which talk about spam a specific target of their spam-spew. They deliberately target any entries on spam, apparently using the word “spam” as a target text string. Well, spam them. Spam them all to hell. I can rename categories and individual pages faster than their spambots can catch on, and so their autospam programs wind up sending the spammy spam to non-existent addresses, which has resulted in hundreds of 404-page hits on my spam-free site in less than half a day. Spam!

They are currently in their now-traditional beginning-of-the-month spamfest, trying to rack up as many hits as they can so they can get to the top of the top-referrer lists. Of course, they’re idiots because nobody has top-referrer lists any more–not that such a fact bothers them much. Strange that they have ramped up their referral spam, and their assaults via blog comment spam and trackback spam have waned, considering that more bloggers allow the latter types of spam to go unchecked, and the former type probably gets them little or nothing. It’s almost as if they’ve stopped caring about the efficiency of their spam, and are now just using it, as much as for anything else, to vandalize sites which call them on their bullshit.

One thing I refuse to be is intimidated by these clowns. I’ll continue to chronicle anything and everything I can on the subject, and continue to block their garbage with 100% efficiency. That’s not a New Year’s resolution, it’s simply a way of life for a serious blogger nowadays. So spam away, Spamholes.

And for everyone else, a Happy New Year!