October 12, 2003

Comment Spamming

Posted by Henry

If you’ve been hit in the last couple of the days by pornspam in your comments, you’re not alone; Crooked Timber has been hit too, as have many other sites. If you’re a MT person, the IP address to block for this latest wave is 209.210.176. and make sure to include the period at the end. Thanks to Teresa Nielsen Hayden for the heads-up - and check her site for further updates and breaking news. MT Blacklist should be out tomorrow; if it works as advertised, it should help mitigate the problem.

Posted on October 12, 2003 06:33 PM UTC
Comments

I must be some total loser. I mostly get insurance spam in my blog comments.

Posted by EKR · October 12, 2003 11:15 PM

I really appreciate this heads up. Thank you so much. How would one find out the IP addresses of spammers? I confess to a most bitter, immutable loathing of spammers. Sm’ert spammim!*

*Russian; = “Death to Spam!”

Posted by James R MacLean · October 13, 2003 08:12 AM
Followups

→ An open letter to Google concerning blog comment spamming.
Excerpt: I just sent the following letter to suggestions@google.com. If anybody knows anybody who works there, please feel free to...Read more at Notes
→ Comment spam.
Excerpt: Crooked Timber has some solutions for comment spam. One solution is a Movable Type blacklist, which is installed as a...Read more at Lemondust

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