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Oct 31 2004

Death to All Comment Spammers

Posted by Elaine in Web/Tech

I am now trying Dougal’s Tarpit plugin to see if I can discourage the video gambling spammer who is flooding my comments.

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6 Responses to “Death to All Comment Spammers”
  1. Elaine says:
    2004/10/31 at 9:46 pm

    It seems to be working, so I have turned comment moderation off.

  2. Jack says:
    2004/11/01 at 12:38 am

    I got hit with one comment, so I am now requiring name and email. I’ll see if that does anything.

  3. goneaway says:
    2004/11/01 at 1:35 am

    I’ve been getting plowed with the same crap. I moderate everything by default but until I installed the Three Strikes plugin it was a lot of time spent deleting the crud. Grrrr…

  4. deb says:
    2004/11/01 at 5:40 am

    Thanks, Elaine, for the info. When I finally am able to get my weblog moved to another server, I think I’ll try installing this plugin. The gambling spam gets me every day. Grrrrr.

  5. Elaine (the other one) says:
    2004/11/01 at 7:37 pm

    It really has been quite bad the last week or so! I’ll have to look into that plugin myself…as it is now I’ve just tweaked my moderation settings…what annoys me now is the “please approve” emails!

  6. Your Guess Is As Good As Mine says:
    2004/12/12 at 1:47 pm

    You’ve Got Spam

    After an upsurge of spam, I have had to shutdown commenting to this weblog, like others, e.g., Val MacEwan: (Not So Open) Open Source for Working Writers Five Acres with View N=1 The Wordpress weblog engine allows the user…

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