Comment Spam and Blacklists
Published on 17 Jul 2007 at 10:02 pm.
1 Comment.
Filed under Internet, Solutions.
I am getting a huge amount of comment spam, and despite the fact that I have blacklisted a large number of keywords, the spammers have gotten smart and are commenting with single innocuous words, such as: nice, cool, and sorry. It is tough to blacklist these as they will just come up with others.
Instead, the only commonality I see is that the email addresses are all from mail.com and hotmail.com. So, for the time being, I am blacklisting these email addresses.
If anyone has a better way to handle this, I would appreciate the advice.
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
Steve on 18 Aug 2007 at 4:13 pm: 1
Hi, Kev. What Anita has had to do is after a few days lock down the ability to comment on her posts. This fixed most of it, as it seemed most of the spam would come on old posts. Not sure if this is the case for you or not. You might want to ask her if she has any other ideas - this was happening quite awhile ago & I don’t know is she is doing something different now.