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BlogD wrote at 2006-05-28 06:52:

Ah, for the good old days of innocence and only having a few dozen sp*m per week. My filters now stop hundreds a day at minimum, and thousands when the floods come. Enjoy the few block words working, it won't last for long. Start looking into the more heavy-duty anti-sp*m plug-ins available for your blog software--you're going to need it.

By the way, this post crashes Safari. Don't know why it should, but it does. Had to come in through Firefox to comment.

YorHel wrote at 2006-05-28 21:41:

Ah, I love stats! But I have to agree with BlogD, a simple "block words" script does not always work... at least not anymore on my blog. Blocking the <strong>-tag does work though, it seems all comment-spam uses it, let's hope it lasts for now.

By the way, Safari works fine here.

BlogD wrote at 2006-05-29 04:21:

YorHel, you must be getting a lot of spam from one source. My blog spam folder, where I archive the spam email notifications for study purposes, has 6355 records (those being the ones that got through my filters over the past 3 years), and only 26 have the "strong" tag. I dunno, maybe my folters catch stuff like that--but if so, why did the 26 get through?

The spammers work long and hard not to have a common element that can be filtered. The smartest ones vary the email address, subject header and comment text as much as they can, and they fake the IPs so no two have the same address.

B10m wrote at 2006-05-29 06:56:

Sure, I could hack up and use better anti-spam systems, yet I don't like overkill when it comes to preventing stuff. I could use SpamAssassin's tests probably, and I know there quite a few blacklists out there too. I could even include CAPTCHA images, yet I doubt that will ever happen, for I hate them (except for the text-based versions, where some simple math has to be performed. And since YorHel is our "Math Hacker" here, he might like to multiply a few prime numbers and what not before posting ;-)

This is a low-profile blog and I really don't see the need to add "better" measures. As to now, my few block words seem to be working rather well and I'm too lazy to implement comment-approving/moderating systems.

If for whatever reason the block words seem to be insufficient, I'll look at it again, but for now, feel free to post by bots and what not ;-)

BOK wrote at 2006-05-29 11:15:

That looks really neat, dude!

On my blog I use "Spam Karma 2" for WordPress and somehow there seemed to be a spam-wave going round about a week ago, because all of a sudden it started counting lots of so called trackback-comment-spam...

B10m wrote at 2006-06-03 10:53:

As it seems that IP address 193.19.120.6 keeps on trying, I decided to give him a slightly different form. Instead of posting a comment, he/she is spamming his/her ISP's abuse desk directly ;-)