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This last week I got an email from my hosting provider, Godaddy.

Dear Joshua Unseth,

We have received complaints that you are involved in sending unsolicited email messages for/from the following domain(s):

CARTOONWEEKLY.COM

If this is the case, GoDaddy.com, Inc. requires that you cease this activity immediately. You are also required to respond to this notification within 24 hours to address the situation. Failure to do so may lead to the suspension or cancellation of service.

Please review our Universal Terms of Service for details on the nature of this situation: https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/agreements.asp?prog_id=GoDaddy&isc=gdbb644

Specifically, we recommend you review Sections 5 and 6 of this agreement.

Again, as we stated above, you are required to respond to this notification within 24 hours to address the situation. We look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Spam and Abuse Department
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

I’d setup the domain cartoonweekly.com to try my hand at using WordPres MU. After my initial setup I realized that it was more than I needed for most of my projects and abandoned it. Over the last few weeks, however, my server was getting bombed. There was so much activity on my server, and I couldn’t figure out why. When I got this email, I checked my code, and sure enough, there was a SPAM redirect in my header. Boo. Anyhow, the instant I deleted the the installation, my server’s activity went back to normal.

Lorelle posted a great article today discussing how to detect SPAM comments on your blog. She talks about, specifically, trackback links that Spammers are using. They’re getting more sophistocated. When I was a new blogger, I fell for a lot of these—happy that anyone at all would notice my posts.

howtospoter gives the following list of SPAM fighting tools (other than Akismet).

• WP-SpamFree
• KeywordLuv
• CommentLuv