Autumn tree

Like everything else in the world, there will come a time of change. So must the season. And it’s beautiful. As long as it doesn’t storm.

Recently I’ve been receiving a lot of spam. Yesterday I reached my breaking point. I traced the spams to a range of IP addresses is Ukraine. Specifically, in Kharkivs’Ka Oblast’. I’m pretty sure they don’t live on trees over there, but it seems possible because monkeys don’t discipline their kids for spamming.

I’ve decided to block the entire IP address range. Everything from 85.255.112.0 to 85.255.127.255 is now blocked from accessing datacrush.info.

Using .htaccess here’s how:

# To block 85.255.112.0 to 85.255.112.255
deny from 85.255.112.0/255.255.255.0

# To block 85.255.112.0 to 85.255.114.255
deny from 85.255.112.0/255.255.253.0

# To block 85.0.0.0 to 85.100.255.255
deny from 85.0.0.0/255.155.0.0.0

Spammers are the lowest form of carbon based life form. Even lower than used car salesman. Avoid them. Don’t date them. They aren’t hackers. They’re lame.

Autumn. Awesome. I’m loving it.