Irony strikes again - comment spam & MT-Blacklist

By Oli
At 1:36 PM · Friday, 17 October · 2003
To Humour · Weblogging

Straight after writing about email spam, I get my first MT Comment spam. Considering it’s only the third comment I’ve had, this is exceptionally worrying. Jay Allen comes to the rescue with MT Blacklist, which ironically has the spam I received as it’s first rule (even though I’d deleted it before installing). I’m planning to follow this up with some of Yoz Grahame’s Seven tips for a Spam-free MT. Bastards!

I’ve published the Boblet blacklist.txt file, and am looking forward to see how ludicrously large it grows, especially once some community updating features get added. Right, on to spider traps and .htaccess blacklists…

A round of applause for Mr Allen! [insert sound of hearty clapping here]

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1. Comment by oli  · 7 Dec, 2003 · 11:23 AM

Check out Jay Allen’s Comment Spam ClearingHouse. Go Jay!