{"id":12709,"date":"2008-02-20T21:36:34","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T04:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/02\/20\/anti-spam-update.html"},"modified":"2008-02-20T21:36:34","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T04:36:34","slug":"anti_spam_update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/anti_spam_update.html","title":{"rendered":"Anti-spam update"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Comments are tending to remain spam-free (thank you, TinyTuring<\/a>). A few occasionally are popping up as added by real (evil) people at keyboards; these tend to be fairly obvious on all my blogs, and get deleted as soon as they’re spotted. I’m hitting the Manage Comments section of my MT installation at least every few days, in case something comes up on one of my less-watched blogs (I don’t always see the Comments e-mails).<\/p>\n

Trackbacks continue to be the biggest problem, but are largely managed. Basically, trackbacks on all blogs except this one and BD’s are moderated (the exceptions are because we both are more likely to spot stuff quickly), and both blogs have low thresholds for flagging stuff to be moderated (or junked) anyway. <\/p>\n

By the same token, some very crafty trackbacks have been showing up lately that aren’t easily filtered — titles and excerpts from “real” text, and links to domains that look relatively innocuous. These have the greatest likelihood of slipping through, but I’ve been monitoring both my e-mail notifications and the MT trackbacks screen pretty closely, as well as noting IP ranges for those innocuous domains (and, quel surprise<\/em>, they often are part of the same bloc, which then gets IP-banned).<\/p>\n

It does remain intensely frustrating — like having a wall that invisible taggers keep spray painting — but I refuse to let the bastards grind me down.<\/p>\n

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Other tools used: AutoBan<\/a> (which throws a temporary IP block into the .htaccess file any time something.gets flagged as junk, thus reducing processing burden — right now blocking 151 IP addies for the next 2 days), and the built-in SpamLookup (which includes IP blacklist lookups at bsb.spamlookup.net, sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org, and bl.spamcop.net and domain blacklist lookups at bsb.spamlookup.net, sc.surbl.org, and multi.uribl.com).<\/p>\n

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