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May 28, 2004

Pardon the Porn-Spam

I'm deleting the various "free rape" spam comments as fast as I can. There are dozens of IP addresses sending them.

And, here's the thing: Maybe they're using spoof IP addresses to send them. Maybe I'm actually banning readers. If I banned you, let me know by email.

posted by Ace at 05:30 PM

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Ace,

Ask your host if you can install Blacklist. It's not perfect but it's pretty darn good.

Posted by: keggin on May 28, 2004 06:24 PM

I agree Ace. Blacklist is definetly the way to go. I've had it for three months now at Say Anything and only two spam comments have gotten through, and I get hit with about 20 spam comments/day.

Posted by: Rob on May 28, 2004 07:04 PM

What is a spam comment? Should I be, like, sort of jealous or what? Like, is a spam comment the sign that you made it or what?

Posted by: Rusty Shackleford on May 28, 2004 09:07 PM

Ace:

MuNu has MT Blacklist already installed, but you need to go to the configuration page to activate it. Once it's protecting you, you can use it to automatically find & clean all those digusting messages. (Because they all contain the same word, Blacklist will be quite ruthless and muuuch faster than fighting it manually)

Basically, you just go to the link above, log in, tell Blacklist to protect your site (there's a button, probably already checked), then click "save configuration". Next, click on the De-Spam button at the top of the page, and tell it to clean your last several hundred comments. (You'll have a better feel for how many, based on what you're seeing.) It'll find 'em and nuke 'em for ya.

Paul

Posted by: Light & Dark on May 29, 2004 01:09 AM

Thanks so much. I went to that page and hit configure. I think I enabled it.

Posted by: ace on May 29, 2004 03:10 AM

Ace:

I just tried posting some offensive stuff, and the Blacklist held me out, so your protection is working. (If you're blocked, you get a warning message telling you why and informing you what word it won't allow.)

Did you hit the DeSpam button while you were there to get the Blacklist to root out the offensive comments already on your site? It'll actually do it retroactively if you've already been attacked.

Paul
Paul

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What kind of test was that, Rico? Heh.

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Take a look at this:

The key is that spammers have automated scripts that look for Moveable Type blog sites and they then post to our comments using a direct call to the "mt-comments.cgi" script.

There's info on how to correct it there, and here.

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