Posted by: dresstosurvive | April 1, 2007

Stop Wasting Your Bandwidth

I’ve no idea if the spammers use wholly automated tools to find me. On the off chance that they find my site and THEN decide to spam it, don’t bother. I delete anything that even vaguely smells like spam. I don’t care if it’s a legit looking comment—if it goes to spam, bye. Oh yeah, and please, spam in English at least.

Posted in Free Speech, Lifehacking, Psychotic, Status, Writing

« Zen and the Art of Mail
Anonymizing Proxy for OS X »

Responses

bravo! well said!

did you sign up for Digg? I didn’t get any spam my first few weeks blogging, than I signed up for a Digg account and within an hour I had spam flying in left and right, I get at least 30 a day, drives me crazy, I hate it. I traced the ISP addresses and found out that most of the spam is comming to me from 4 places: China, Singapore, Nigeria, and South America… the web hosts of the sites that are being spam-links to my blog have informed me that most of these spammers are not even human! they are “spambots” and type of robotic software that just randomly sends spam posts to blogs and forums!

well, anyways, when I get spam now, I copy the ISP address and add it to the ban-list on all of my blogs and forums

~~EK

By: EelKat on April 1, 2007
at 2:41 pm

I do have a Digg account. I’m receiving several hundred spam a day, most of which isn’t an issue. Akismet filters 95% of it out. The other 5% seems to slip into my comments and trackbacks. Unfortunately, I don’t remember seeing any option to block an IP from commenting on a WordPress.com hosted blog.

By: dresstosurvive on April 1, 2007
at 3:43 pm

you can block them from the options tag in your dashboard…

go to:

–>My Dashboard

—->Options

——>Discussion

once there scroll down to the bottom of the page where you well find:

–>Comment Blacklist

on that form you can put words, ISP #s, and email addresses

once you do it well cut your spam WAAAY down, at least it did for me

a coders hint:

when you add an ISP # to any ban list add it twice, as follows:

add the entire number, than add the number with the last digits replaced with a *

example:

000.000.00

000.000.*

the reason for this is because a single computer will have multiple numbers, but they all start the same, only the last set of didgits well be differant

hope this helps

~~EK

By: EelKat on April 2, 2007
at 2:44 am

Thank you, thank you! I didn’t know where to find the blacklist. Now my spam queue will be more manageable, just in case I get a false positive.

By: dresstosurvive on April 2, 2007
at 4:19 am

Leave a response






Your response:

Categories