Fighting comment spam
by வெங்கட் • July 21, 2004 • பொது • 2 Comments
Today my site was hit by severe comment spamming. There were about 350 junk comments were posted. I have successfully deleted and blacklisted the domains indulging in spam.
I guess some visitors to my blog might be inconvenienced (Arul and Sundar have posted their comments twice, guess this is due to slow response). I apologize anyone who was inconvenienced.
This is a price I pay having chosen to run my own server, at times it is disgusting.
Nucleus doesn’t seem to be affected(at least AFAIK). May be you can switch to it(like domesticated onion).
That was my intention in configuring NucleusCMS (also MovableType’s recent changes in licensing policies are not palatable to me). But my MT database has grown huge and Ido not know a safe method to move it.
BTW, MT spamming rate is very high just because its popularity (the Windows of blog world). Spamming engines (perl scripts) are available for MT. I am sure nucleuscms and the rest will be hit equally when someone generalizes this MT specific spam engine