So my weblog is getting hit by a slow-moving, multi-ip address using comment robot. Ugh. I suppose I could try to dream up a fancy anti-spam tactic and spend dozens of hours coding it. But it only takes about 5 minutes to delete 30 comments, so the spam is annoying but little more. The robot is still posting every ten minutes or so, btw. I went through Movable Type’s menus, looking for a “disable all comments” setting, but there doesn’t appear to be one. I may have to use brute force, and temporarily delete my mt-comments.cgi file.
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MT-Blacklist is your friend.
http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/
Gotten rid of pretty much all comment spam on my blog.
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Oh yeah, and you should upgrade to the latest version of MT, it has some minor anti-spam pieces in it, so one IP address cannot post more than X comments in a period of time.
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Andrew, the piercings asshole afflicted me today, too. I dealt with it in seven minutes, though. You have the same MT setup, plus you’re a PhD, so you can do it in three…. http://karavshin.org/blogs/black-coffee/archive/001315.html
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Thanks guys. I’m upgrading and adding mt-blacklist.
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