Well, I fixed the comment spam... kinda, sorta, maybe?
Lump's ongoing battle with the spammers is a saga which reads a bit like this:
- Lumpy's Corner starts to get barraged with spam. Not any type of spectacular spam or anything like that but just your garden variety typical spam.
- Lumpy deletes the posts
- The spammers return
- Lumpy deletes
- The spammers return
- Lumpy deletes
- Lumpy notices a pattern
- Lumpy takes advice from Geek and upgrades to MT3.15
- The spammers return
- Lumpy deletes but takes joy in the fact that none of their comments actually got to the server because of comment moderation and enjoys the ability to delete enmasse
- The spammers return and trackback spam begins
- Lumpy deletes but with less joy
- Lumpy renames his comment script and trackback script
- Lumpy enjoys 10 spam free days
- Some "paster" starts to spam
- Lumpy uses IP banning
- Lumpy notices he is not getting anymore trackbacks
- Lumpy wonders if he dorked something
- Exios tries to set a trackback to me
- The trackback is dorked
Lumpy is a bit lost here. I dunno if it because I renamed the script or if it is a bug in and of itself. I took care of the entries in the config file, hid the index and can run the script. Track back just doesn't seem to be working.
Sorry, be patient while I figure this one out.
Yours in SPAM CyberSP4c3,
Lumpy
Comments (4)
Do you have MT Blacklist installed? It has an auto update feature that works pretty good, and I would recommend using the tool with the auto update tuned on. I get very few comment spams getting through, and while I do get a few trackback spam, they are far fewer than if I ran without. As for your trackback problems, I would recommend naming them to their default name. As we discussed before, the well written spam bot will figure it out quickly and not be deterred.
Posted by Geek | March 7, 2005 12:30 PM
Posted on March 7, 2005 12:30
Yeah Geek that is the plan.
Hopefully I will get around to it tonight. I just wanted to experiment a bit though. Changing the files names seemd to fix 90% of it though.
Hope your knee is doing well.
See you in Cyber Space
Posted by Lumpy | March 7, 2005 6:59 PM
Posted on March 7, 2005 18:59
I'm not complaining; I just found your site through BlogHop, and actually I really like it. Then I tried to give your site a great rating and... youuu have no link to BlogHop yet! You should get one. And then I and your faithful followers shall vote for you, O Lumpy One.
Posted by Cary | March 9, 2005 3:20 AM
Posted on March 9, 2005 03:20
You might want a human check on your reply form... like on my blog, where you have to copy numbers from an image into a form...
Not sure how possible this is with your system though...
Posted by Dad | March 10, 2005 7:30 AM
Posted on March 10, 2005 07:30