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Two small changes to the htaccess-file controling the site made the world tick a little bit better:

First, I blocked the IP-range of a few US Internet Providers, then the regular expression about the Wordpress site was changed. These things seemes to have slowed down / stopped the spammers for a while.

This site is not located in America, so there will not be to many problems about blocking the IP-ranges from that continent a while, or redirecting them to a static site, if that is what it takes.

The Akismet spam history is only a few months old. Some bastard have found this site to be the target of heavy spamming, he / she / it (I dont know what gender these creeps got) are trying to spam the site to death.

This is causing me to take down the entire site for some weeks, I got to stop the spammer from trying to use my site…

After (what seems as) zillions of spam messages, the solution is near: The death of all spammers.

The killing process is fairly easy: Let the spammers use their hardware on sending spams, but make sure you got mechanisms to stop them.

On Email-spams, one solution is described by Peter Hansteen: Use packet filters in combination with several simple spam identification mechanisms. This makes (among other things) a huge tar pit to let the spammers slide into.

On BLOGs like this, you can use Akismet in combination with the .htaccess extension to block the most aggressive spammers. Akismet itself can be fooled by the most aggressive spammers but personally I found that when I blocked some American IP-ranges, the spamming question got a bit more in control.