inundated
July 3, 2004
i just deleted 535 spamalicious comments from melissas site.
i happened to hop online just as the creep was inundating the site with whatever Spam-Ball Software is the in thing. i know this because comments were being posted faster than i could delete them.
a simple rename of the comment cgi file quickly thwarted the spammers current efforts.
the comment link now points to the individual entry page instead of directly to the .cgi file... this should make it slightly more difficult for spammers to find its name.
and the comments no longer link to a commenters website. in fact, i removed the website field entirely. im still requiring an email address to post comments in case i need to get ahold of a particular commenter.
good grief.
7 Comments
damn
You need MT-blacklist! Does not work with MT3 yet but I use it on a couple of sites I run and it brilliant. You will get an e-mail with a link to go into MT and delete the spam message AND add it to the black list.
http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/
Like you site btw! :D
thanks, simon - ill look into it!
Maybe you changed something since this post, but FYI an email address is not required...
i meant on my sisters site, not here.
Oh...hehe...of course you did... :o
:D