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Comment spam of the annoying kind

I've just deleted exactly 314 comment spams sent to this blog. Fortunately, I am conversant enough to simply wipe them out with a single SQL statement to the database rather than doing it individually, so the most annoying part was simply waiting for the scumbag to finish so I didn't have to rebuild the site more than once.

But I'm truly, deeply, annoyed now. It's one thing to send one or two comments, but this moron sent a comment to literally every single post on the site. That, as the Irish say, is going beyond the beyond. So, since I have the IP address the comments were posted from, I have sent the following email to FAST.NET, the spammers connection ISP:

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Ladies and/or gentlemen --

I have just deleted some 300 identical comment spams to my website. I
am including a sample below. These were likely done with a script, as
they arrived 2-3 per minute. I don't know (or care) whether you host
any of the domains this person is trying to advertise, but the actual
spams originated on your network. They were sent between 3:27pm and
5:12pm EST today.

Please let me know what action you will be taking.

Thank you,

Nicholas Chase

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IP Address: 207.29.194.4
Name: propecia
Email Address: puner_vol@freemail.com
URL: (snipped)

(rest of the message snipped for obvious reasons)

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I'll keep you posted on what Fast.net actually does.

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