The e-mail account which serves as the dump for my comment/contact scripts has been flooded with insane amounts of spam, well over 3000 messages per day. I had to delete most of the messages by hand from the Maildir on the server because e-mail clients were crashing upon learning that there were 20,000 messages in the inbox!

Apparently someone has written a program which skips the whole screen scraping/form filling ordeal and just formulates a huge pornographic POST request and sends it to my muBB comment system's main script. Somehow they are getting past the verification methods (creation of php session with two integers - one from 0-10, the other from 0-100. User must read them from an image and add them in order to submit the form). This is obviously due to an error in my implementation or else someone has some really damn good OCR software running somewhere (and is actively participating in the spamming of my site as the image is a recent addition), but figuring that out is a project for another day.

If you did send me a message, it more than likely was deleted with the rest of the SPAM. Sorry for any incovenience this may have caused. Comments on both the weblog and through the articles, etc via muBB are turned off until I fix the verification methods.