comment spam
I know what you're thinking: nothing much must have happened today if she's talking about comment spam. However: there is only one source I have for comment spam. It's one company, or organization, or website seeking referrals. They keep rotating IP addresses, so IP banning doesn't work. Has anyone found a good way of proactively preventing comment spam that refers to a specific website? Is this a movable type thing, that other blog systems are immune to?
Probably a continuously running Perl script could take this out so I never have to delete it directly, but it would be great to have a cleaner solution
Comments
Elizabeth, you can try Jay Allen's comment spam script for MT. It's basically a blocking script that refers to a ban list you keep updated.
That, and IP banning of any errant east asian or latin american IPs I see seems to work well.
Others use strategies like capatcha. Or, in the case of Userland, they have a mechanism by which one has to register to the site in order to comment.
Posted by: joy | May 6, 2004 06:08 PM
Okay, I've installed the Jay Allen deal. Thanks for the referral!
Posted by: eg | May 7, 2004 07:26 AM
hello
Posted by: hippie | June 2, 2004 04:57 PM