Among my other site maintenance projects today, I also installed the much-needed MT-Blacklist, which, if it works according to plan, should kick ass. Apparently comment spamming has become so prevalent that some kind soul has finally created an excellent tool to stop it. MT-Blacklist comes with a database of 400 blacklisted spammers and is designed to leverage the power of the Web through a blacklist.txt file that should reside in the top level of bloggers’ sites. Every new comment notification email I receive now includes a link to “De-spam using MT-Blacklist,” if I so choose. During my installation, I also opted to be notified of attempts to leave comment spam.
Awesome tool.
Rock on, Jay Allen, and mad props to you.
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4 responses so far ↓
1 Jordan // Oct 16, 2003 at 4:06 pm
Okay, comment spamming is cool, but how about webstat spamming? What is this? This is a brilliant technique by spammers that floods your page with requests which claim the referrer was their porn site. So when you generate stats, your top referrers are pages like, http://www.kinky-feet-fetish.com. Of course, when google parses that page, it see the link to them ups their page ranks. Sneaky!
I haven’t found an official webstat spamming blacklist… but I’m starting to block these jerks.
Spammers are… well evil, inherintly… but damn smart too.
2 JayAllen - The Daily Journey // Oct 29, 2003 at 6:51 am
MT-Blacklist Version 1.5 released
Today I am pleased (proud, relieved, thankful, etc) to announce the release of MT-Blacklist v1.5. There are some major changes…
3 JayAllen - The Daily Journey // Oct 29, 2003 at 6:59 am
MT-Blacklist Version 1.5 released
Today I am pleased (proud, relieved, thankful, etc) to announce the release of MT-Blacklist v1.5. There are some major changes…
4 Tech-Weblog by Christoph C. Cemper // Dec 25, 2003 at 5:18 pm
MT-Blacklist 1.62 and updater
Jay Allen’s wonderful MT-Blacklist that helps to avoid penis pill spam and thousands of other idiotic comments on MT-blogs is hot and installed… there’s also a documentation on updating automatically with some addons… But Jay talks about version 2 …