over the last few couple of weeks i started getting a LOT of comment spam on my blog, mostly for prescription drug websites. i began to vigorously delete them each day after reading this guy's blog entry, "spam begets spam". but they just kept popping up, all obviously from a robot doing web searches for movable type blogs.
movable type doesn't have a mass-comment editor, though, so it was a major pain to delete all the comments one by one. i looked at a couple of comment spam prevention systems but they were all too much trouble to install, or required you to add crazy regexp filters to your MT templates, or personally approve every comment ... basically, more time than my busy/lazy self was willing to invest in my blog.
so i just renamed mt-comments.cgi to mt-c0mments.cgi (and changed the appropriate line in mt.cfg) to keep the robots away. i haven't received any comment spam since then, and i used to get several every day, so i suppose it must be working. publicizing my quick hack of a fix in a blog entry probably isn't the best idea though. oh well. if it gets worse i might do what this guy is doing.
addendum: ahh, what i did probably doesn't work. i got a (hand-entered?) comment spam today. argh.
Posted by cce at October 6, 2003 05:15 PM | TrackBackeat at joe's.
Posted by: joe's at October 7, 2003 06:06 PM