to that Maestra of Spambots, Elfling. Especially after two diaries asking Admin what the hell was going on, I thought it was about time.
Notice the miraculous (hah!) absence of Phone Numbers on the Recent List this morning? If you didn't, perhaps you might want to take a look. For at least a time, our adorable tech support and sports video spammers have been relegated to the back benches.
Eight of them since midnight Greenwich time last night. (Okay, UTC, but I'm a traditionalist.)
I think we owe her a round of applause.
Yes, they'll be back, or someone like them, with some different approach which will have to be solved all over again. They're always going to come back, whether we set a waiting period or not. But for now, enjoy the silence.
7:49 AM PT: Make that twelve, only one of whom made it to the recent list, and was promptly spotted and removed. ;)
8:40 AM PT: Make that seventeen and four - it seems as though they're already tweaking the posting parameters.
Per elfling's comment - make that seventeen and zero. Any appearance on the Recent list is an artifact of the fact that spotting a spammer is not an instantaneous process - the bots got 'em all!