{"id":7701,"date":"2005-01-17T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-17T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/01\/17\/spam-by-proxy.html"},"modified":"2005-01-17T07:29:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-17T14:29:00","slug":"spam_by_proxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/17\/spam_by_proxy.html","title":{"rendered":"Spam by proxy"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the suggestion of a couple of sites, including 6A<\/a>, I installed over the weekend Brad Choate’s MT-DSBL<\/a> plug-in, which attempts to use open proxy information from DSBL<\/a> to identify potential comment spammers. <\/p>\n

So far, though, the only folks blocked were Randy and Mary, two people I’m pretty certain are not<\/em> spammers (and who, presumably, are using respectable ISPs). Their comments dropped into moderation (and were posted this morning), but unlike MTBL, I had to actually view the Comments queue to spot them.<\/p>\n

We’ll see how it works over the next week or so, but my inclination is at this point to drop MT-DSBL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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