I've just banned the 160th IP address from this weblog.
Link Spam aka Blog Spam (Wikipedia defines it here: Blog Spam) is one aspect of blogging that I didn't realise I would have to contend with AND IT'S REALLY ANNOYING!!
The process of removing a comment made by a spambot (or by anyone actually) involves 16 mouse clicks - I counted this morning. I don't know if this long operation is due to using Moveable Type, but according to the above page on Wikipedia, MT blogs do attract more than their fair share of this type of vandalism.
I'm still trying to work my way round under the MT bonnet, but I haven't found a way of preventing comments from being posted before I get to read them... if I do, it'll make my year!
This is obviously a desperate and hopeless plea, but if you read this and you are the proud owner of a spambot, please stop it! I'd rather close the site down than advertise links to buy your horrid products.
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PS The counter is now at 161...
For avid readers of this exciting thread, you'll be pleased to know that as of October 19, 2005 I'm about to hit to hit the 200 mark - I'm currently standing at 197 following 15 (!) attacks today and yesterday.
I did a little research and Julian is correct; there is a one-click solution, but it doesn't seem to work for me. Consequently I'm left with the sixteen-click version.
Apparently it's much less of a problem with 'later' versions of MT... need to investigate why I am using such an archaic version!
Posted by dompannell at October 4, 2005 3:40 PMIf you have wordpress and you install spam-karma or the spam-kitten it kills 99% of spam and it only taks 3 clicks.....
in case you ever thought of moving to wordpress that is..... in the meantime some clever chap somewhere has got to have invented a plugin for movable type...
regards julian
Posted by: Julian Guppy at October 4, 2005 4:18 PMThanks for the tip, Julian. I guess I have some surfing to do in order to find that clever plug-in!
Posted by: Dom at October 4, 2005 4:42 PMI took it to mean I had finally arrived in blogworld! And then curse it every time I post and the spam follows. We should do that beer sometime soon and swop spam-attack war stories ;-)
You're on David. Sorry I haven't taken you up on this earlier... I've been a wee bit busy grabbing some consulting gigs and working on a comic strip (the subject of a future post I'm sure). You're right we need to organise something; I'll give you a call!
Posted by: Dom at October 4, 2005 11:49 PMHey Dom,
Been having a few problems with blogging spam lately myself...get in touch when you have a moment, would be good to catch up!
Regards,
Geoff
Posted by: Geoff at December 3, 2005 9:45 PM