October 19, 2004
Comment Spammers
Comment spammers really are scum aren't they?
Not content with ruining email for most people spammers have turned their attention to blogs and attempting to peddle their dubious wares by developing robots which post comments to random articles.
Luckily I have MT Blacklist installed and have for a long time now.
In my blacklist I currently have nearly 2500 domains and regular expressions that are not allowed to comment. I have also taken the step of blocking all comments / trackbacks from .de and .ru domains as all these have ever been on this blog is spam.
Still, it really does amaze me when I log into MT and find that MT-Blacklist has stopped another 50 or 60 comments due to dubious content.
I am immensely grateful that people like Jay put so much effort into combating this issue.
I have been seriously tempted at times to disallow commenting on all my hosted blogs... I've decided not to go down this route but I'm keeping an eye on the situation and reserve the right to implement that drastic solution if required...