Yeah, that’s actually the slashdot article linking to the BBC article 😉
Here’s a good page on tips to keep blogs spam free. Looks like the best solution, though, is going to be some changes in how MovableType is distributed. Work in some randomized values in the original install and building bots to spam becomes a lot harder.
Not impossible, though. Looks like it’s time to prepare for another arms race.
I’m sure that’ll only be a stop gap solution. And, actually, I haven’t gotten any more since the first ones. But if they do come from the same IP again, I’ll definitely block it.
MT-Blacklist
If you use Movable Type then you should download and install the MT-Blacklist plugin. We had a few spam comments that I promptly deleted, but this plugin will hopefully stop them before I have to deal with them. Installation and…
Ian Ferrel
augie said,
October 27, 2003 at 1:16 pm
Slashdot has an article as well:
here
they also have a link to an older article which provides a link to a MT plugin to thwart those nasty little buggers:
Blog Comment Spam Removal
MT plugin .
Ian said,
October 27, 2003 at 3:19 pm
Yeah, that’s actually the slashdot article linking to the BBC article 😉
Here’s a good page on tips to keep blogs spam free. Looks like the best solution, though, is going to be some changes in how MovableType is distributed. Work in some randomized values in the original install and building bots to spam becomes a lot harder.
Not impossible, though. Looks like it’s time to prepare for another arms race.
Brian said,
October 29, 2003 at 3:24 am
Is there anyway to use block the IP’s of whatever’s running the bot? Or are they randomized or self-reported by the bot…
Just a thought
Ian said,
October 29, 2003 at 8:58 am
I’m sure that’ll only be a stop gap solution. And, actually, I haven’t gotten any more since the first ones. But if they do come from the same IP again, I’ll definitely block it.
Liza said,
October 31, 2003 at 1:15 am
:ninja:
Schwer Log said,
January 25, 2004 at 1:35 pm
Blog Spam Again
MT-Blacklist
If you use Movable Type then you should download and install the MT-Blacklist plugin. We had a few spam comments that I promptly deleted, but this plugin will hopefully stop them before I have to deal with them. Installation and…