I am pretty well hidden over here as this blog, which started a bit over a year ago as a test I was doing with some friends is not a heavily travelled corner of cyberspace. It's mostly just a place for me to stash things I would like to be able to find again and share a few smiles or grumbles with friends.
Wellllllll, the PITA comment spammers seem to have found me. I didn't even realize it for a bit as the most of the nasty litttle titles in the notifications didn't even make it to my mailbox thanks to my email spam blockers and filters.
I started to use Phil Ringnaula's suggestion from the forums about a fast and easy way to ban all IP's temporarily by simply entering a blank IP address via the MT IP Banning feature, but that made me almost as mad as having to delete comment spam. Why shouldn't I be able to allow comments if I want them and still be irritation/spam free? It's not like someone will get super SE ratings for attaching to this little corner.
I dug around for another minute in the forums to find a quick and easy fix. Did not want to invest large amounts of energy into it at this point as catartis.com will be migrating off of MT in the near future. It would have been gone already if I hadn't gotten a case of extreme & acute lazification over this summer break. I have a spot ready for it, but I need to kick my creative cells into gear and come up with new site design templates before I toddle off. I am just that way. lol
Found this quick fix at Neil's World thanks to a post in the MT forums:
Just tested posting a comment on my previous entry and all seems to be working on that end. Now, let's see if it helps. If not, all IP's will be banned until I get off my [ahem] assets and get moved.
The _^..^_ is disgusted, and so am I. [grin & growl]
Farron
Posted by farron at August 9, 2004 11:43 PMYay! I had read about this solution months ago, and kept forgetting to look it up...okay, I didn't forget, I was just lazy. Anyway, I have implemented the MT Blacklist plugin, but that doesn't always help, although it is great help in deleting the spammed comment after the fact.
Thanks for the tip! I am off to change my files.
dT
One more comment! I am proud of myself cos I used pico to make the edit! How cool is Unix!
Anyway, it was easy to update, and now hopefully the spammers will not find me as easily!
:)
dT
It is really easy, isn't it? Blacklist is installed over here as well. Maybe this on top of it will help a bit.
Farron
Posted by: Farron at August 16, 2004 09:31 AM