The spam assault continues. Yesterday the pace picked up until it was hitting every two minutes. Then it stopped. Today it starts again, this time with appeals to insecure men worried that their members are not big enough and potent enough. Dark Wraith writes in a comment here:

The frequency and severity of attacks has increased dramatically over the past several weeks. Whereas the garden variety port scans are forever vexing us, the new breeds are of the denial of service and DCE bind attempt sorts, and these are potentially destructive. The DCE binds to vulnerable ports are often times associated with variants on the Blaster virus. The denial of service attacks are from several breeds of malcontents.

And I do see the possibility that this is all politically motivated. But then again, spammers are really people suffering from diarrhea -- they just can't help themselves. Really, it's just an extension of the practices of television advertising:

Throw the shit into people's faces and hope someone licks their lips. Yeah, I know. Gross. But let's face it, that's what interstitial advertising is, and that's what spam is: unwanted, unwelcome, unavoidable messaging. So far I am content to let the Bayesian spam filters to do the work. But post-move next week, if this continues, we will see deployment of some other measures.

Meanwhile, spammers, your IP addresses may dance around like prairie dog dens, but they are being shared, as are your domains. The problem with your scorched Earth approach is that you're scorching it only for yourselves, and eventually you will run out of space. Then you'll actually have to work for a living. (Oh dear!)

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