wp-spamfree for no spam
I was generating a list of comment spam IP’s with a view to creating some blocking software. However I just found wp-spamfree and installed it 3 days ago and have had not spam to generate the ip list from since.
Archive for July, 2009
Comment spam a good day, kinda
At 5am this morning every single one of my articles across 3 blogs got a single spam. each was from a unique IP address (Added to my list here)
It has given me quite a bit of info to assist me in my anti-spam routines. looking to have some results shortly.
Blocking comment Spam
I don’t get a lot of comment spam if you just look at the numbers but it does make up over 99.9% of comments so I find it extremely tedious.
This page here has a lot interesting techniques for reducing spam and is worth a read.
I will be developing some additional code to integrate into my [...]
Spammers IP List
I am now generating a list of all spammers IP’s as found on this blog and my FullTiming blog.
You can find this Here
I have only started this today and will be adding to it periodically. It is not sorted and as the list gets longer there may be duplicates.
Project planning, software design or just putting down thoughts.
I am about to start on what is for me a major project. I didn’t want to get half way through it to realise that my design is too restrictive or too complicated.
I started with some scribbled notes and ended up with a notepad full. It was getting harder and harder to see the wood [...]