Got an e-mail from the good people at Hosting Matters [1] over the weekend that comment spam activities on my blog were causing some significant server hits, with suggestions on what to do about it.
I already run AutoBan [2], a fine MT plug-in that, as soon a someone files a comment identified as “junk” throws up a temporary IP blog for the page, preventing them from trying again (with trivial load on the servers in so doing, unlike most of the other anti-spam solutions). Granted, IP addresses can be spoofed, but it’s at least some help against some comment spammers.
There was also a suggestion to fix the way comments.cgi is invoked by TypeKey-enabled blogs [3] (like this one). I’ve also now implemented that, which should help all-around.
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