[MT-users] informal poll: comment spam?

[Paul Makepeace]

Thanks for the responses; similar reports: oases of calm and then bursts 
of them every few days.

I'm working on building some detection of open proxies (often used by 
spammers) as well as shutting down the comment scripts when under 
attack, an annoyance which can make the server grind to a halt.

In the meantime I've optimised the blacklist somewhat by removing ~600 
entries that were duplicates or redundant (mostly of the form 
X.spammy-domain.com, Y.spammy-domain.com, etc to just 
spammy-domain.com). Seems a bit more responsive.

Paul

Paul Makepeace wrote:
> This email for everyone - should take a minute max of your time.
> 
> How much comment spam are folk getting here? A ballpark estimate of 
> daily numbers is what I'm after.
> 
> I'm currently crippled so have some extra coding time on my hands and 
> have been playing about with some ideas to combat it.
> 
> If everyone could please send me a a note off-list (by default replies 
> go to list so you'll need to past paulm at paulm.com in there) and I'll 
> summarise.
> 
> Thanks! Paul
> 

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