Feb 07 2005
Anti Spam Behavioural Order (ASBO)
I have just created an ASBO notice page for all the people trying to view my site from a restricted IP Address.
Over the weekend I received over 300 spam comments… that’s right, 300 in two days!!!! Luckily Spam Karma has been pretty good at detecting and destroying the comments, only 3 comments managed to make it through undetected.
Due to this increased activity I am going to be increasing my efforts to add spammers IP addresses to my .htaccess deny directives. This may result in some valid users being deny access, so I created a friendly page where they can read about their denial of access and how they can contact me about it.
I’ve taken the name Anti Spam Behavioural Order from the controversial British Anti Social Behavioural Order which is aimed at restraining the few that spoil it for the masses. What is more ironic is that the British ASBOs are mainly aimed at children (who cannot receive a jail sentence) and it is probably Script Kiddies that a responsible for the spam comments I am receiving on this site!
Thats peanuts… my trickle of comment spams turned into over 600 at the week-end!! Spam Karma let none through which was a hell of a result. I shall be wanting to try out your plugin please… just to save my bandwidth!!!
Why not make it so only registered users of Gringod can leave comments.
I thought about only letting registered user post comments… but then I though “Would I bother to post a comment if I had to register?… hell no!!!“
Well then why not use that picture code technique? When some one posts a comment they have to type in the number they see in a picture just above the Say It button.
That is an option, but that doesn’t get around the spammers that set the “Referer” in the HTTP headers. My log files and filled with crap referers so I can hardly see where the real site visitors are coming from.
I am starting to combat this with better spam blocking