Blog spam control
You're reading Mikko Saari's blog Life and opinions. This entry was written 03/21/2005, at 16:45.
If you want read more of my entries in the same topic, this entry belongs to the category of Geek stuff.
Previous entry: Village
Next entry: Sad state of album promotion
My anti-spam combat system has two new weapons. I read Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse (New anti-spam plugins) and found two new plugins for Movable Type.
First one is Chad Everett's MT-Moderate, which adds TrackBack moderation to Movable Type. That's neat. Perhaps that will block the TrackBacks that go through MT-Blacklist from showing up, as they are an embarrassment for me - most of them are nasty porn, which I don't want in my blog.
Second simple and useful tool is MT-Ban-Numeric-Entities, which blocks all comments with characters replaced with HTML entities. Blocking is the way to go, as that's almost 100% certain sign of spam.
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.melankolia.net/mt/mt-tb.cgi/3152