Well now I know what the next step in the spam arms race is...no sooner do I install mtblacklist then I get nailed by some fucker posting links to a site not on the blacklist, and the text of the messages is random quotes about programming. At least they are cake to remove now. Still annoying though. Why don't these people just get real jobs, that actually contribute to society instead of sucking off the economy like leeches?
The real sad part to me is how much easier they have it than the people trying to defend against yet, yet spammers still basically suck at what they do. I can dream up tons and tons of ways to make auto-spamming software better at what it does, and rarely do I see them actually implemented. I guess I should be thankful, but it mostly fills me with disdain towards the actual authors of the crap.
Funny, that's the way I mostly think about it, too. Back last winter when crapflooding MT was all the rage, I had maybe a half dozen more ideas about how to stop it, and at least three dozen ideas for how to better crapflood. Taunted them as much as I could, trying to put some evolutionary pressure on them, but they couldn't be bothered as long as there were other boring easy targets to do the same old thing to again and again.
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