September 29th, 2004

“But I don’t even like spam.”

Posted in Real World, Technology, The Web by Diggory

Ah - they joys of spam….

When I ran MovableType the comment spam was rampant - when I installed MTBlacklist (and auto-updated the blacklist) it was a bit better. MT was a bit of a monoculture - most people ran it - so it became a worthwhile target for spammers.

Then I moved to WordPress - and for two months not a single spam. A couple of days ago it started again - and this morning there were three new spam comments. I’ll take that as an indicator of the success of WordPress as a blogging solution.

I’m afraid that I’ve made it so that comments must be authorised by me - and I’m looking at using the WordPress Blacklist.

(Incidentally - Poker seems to be the new Viagra as far as spam goes.)

{Edit - }

I’ve had a go with some plug-ins for WordPress - and comments now will not appear until I have moderated them as OK.

Also - here is the source for a file I just hacked to generated an RSS feed for unmoderated comments - just put it in your WordPress Root (and get rid of the .txt extension)

http://www.diggory.net/grazing/wp-unmoderatedcommentsrss2.php.txt (This is for WP version 1.2)

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