Confounding the Spammers
Posted by Stropp on November 20, 2006I started this blog a bit over two months ago now, in mid-September. A couple of days after I started, I submitted an article (Account Security) to Problogger for a writing contest at the time. What was interesting was the number of trackbacks I got from other blogs simply listing the contest entries. There were a lot of links to my site.
This produced another result. The next day at work I tried to view my website, only to find that it had been blocked for inappropriate content. When I got home later, I checked and found that my blog had been targeted by the most foul beasts imaginable, much worse than even the worst WoW boss. Spammers.
I wasn’t just getting spam, I was getting the most unbelievably filthy pron spam. I deleted it, and went on the search for a solution. I found a free Wordpress plugin called Akismet and installed it.
Today, about two and half months later, Akismet has blocked over 1000 comment spam messages, with only one false positive. Thank you Akismet.
I highly recommend this service to anyone considering starting a blog on their own server.
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You betcha, that’s the best. I combine it with Bannage to get almost all of it. I have dozens of IPs, e-mails, and keywords blocked before Akismet even gets a shot at it, and I have 1,190 to date. Even with Bannage turned on, I had 29 over the weekend. I wish I knew how many get banned, too.
http://www.justinshattuck.com/bannage/
You can safely block the following e-mail domain:
*@mail.kz
Thanks for the tip Deadr. I wasn’t aware of Bannage, but so far I’m not sure if I need anything else. Akisment has stopped absolutely every bit of Spam. But I will keep it in mind, in case I need it.
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