More blog spam

18 Nov 2003

Another annoying vector for spamming bloggers is comments. The bots now do google searches for typical signs of Movabletype comment forms and then go spam them. They do this to up their google pageranking.

A few weeks ago Jay Allen wrote a system called MT-Blacklist that blocks based on blacklists. While blacklists isn't the best way to blog spammers they are so far the best option that bloggers have due to the lack of unspoofable meta data in the HTTP protocol.

I installed the plugin into my Movabletype and have stopped quite a few comment spam attempts using it so I am quite happy with it and would recommend it to any MT user.

Posted by R.I.Pienaar on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 at 11:58 PM

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