[MT-users] More spam battling

[David Rosam (Personal e-mail)]

Thanks for all this - I banned the IP addresses from my blog.

While I was on holiday, Dangerous Thinking sustained over 600 comment
spams - that's in one week.

The pattern seems to be that the comment spammer identifies blogs with a
useful Google PR and plants a comment spam. A few hours (sometimes
minutes) later, they come back for another go. If you haven't intervened
using MT-Blacklist, they just keep coming back - one URL got inserted
nearly 100 times until I intervened from my hotel.

Bastards!

Cheers

David

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:22:26 +0100, "Paul Makepeace"
<Paul.Makepeace at realprogrammers.com> said:
> Thanks for this David.
> 
> Je 2004-10-21 15:47:11 +0100, David Jennings skribis:
> > Paul and I have discussed this following another 'attack' I had a few 
> > days ago (even after implementing 2, 3 and 6). I've now also 
> > implemented 5 - IP banning - since I found that 3 or 4 IP addresses 
> > were responsible for hundreds of spam comments on my site over a 
> > four-month period.
> > 
> > The biggest offending IPs have been:
> > 198.26.120.13
> > 198.26.118.37
> > 198.26.118.36
> 
> This is US military (Defense Information Systems Agency of all places!!)
> I've just mailed the abuse contact here.
> 
> > 203.122.54.129
> 
> This is in India. Will send email too altho' it doesn't list a specific
> abuse contact, so I just dropped it into the system firewall for good
> measure....
> 
> P
> 
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