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AMMT Anti-spam Measures

Posted November 8th, 2004 at 08:12am

A few days ago, I had had enough of comment spam. I had been using the anti-spam word list in my WordPress discussion options to “trap” suspected spam for moderation, but I was getting over 100 per day in my moderation queue. So I grabbed the IP Blocklist plugin from Charles Gagalac and activated it. Basically, it checks to see if the comment is coming from a known spam relay host. Poof, no more comment spam.

That being said, I’m a little paranoid that it might be killing regular comments as well. If you’ve tried to leave a comment, but my blog won’t let you (and you’re not a spammer), please email me and let me know. My @gmail address can be found near the bottom of my menu bar.

[Update: Hmm... just tripped across an excellent page about combatting spam in WordPress.]