Movable Type
Posted on July 16, 2004 by Ching under Web.
Mom and Dad’s website has suffered major comment spam in the last few months. I’ve been really lazy to do something about it. I feel really guilty too because the fix was pretty simple.
I mean, comment spam has been an ongoing problem for Movable Type. It’s their Achilles’ heel, so to speak. I guess it’s an easy hack. Bots just swarm and post one worthless message after another. If you’re like me, who doesn’t really check comments regularly, then it takes months before you even detect the problem.
Anyway, I finally got around to installing MT-Blacklist and it works great! I had problems adding the master blacklist at first because I wanted to add it all in one shot and the list was just too long. I chopped it up into bite-sited sections (I love cut-and-paste) and finally got my blacklist going. That should be the end of the comment spam (for now, at least, until the bad guys figure out a way around the blacklist).
Jay Allen is my savior! Â
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