[SURBL-Discuss] Re: Applying SURBL against blog comment spammers

[Kelson]

Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions wrote:
> Which blogger are you using?
> 
> I moved my own blog over to Wordpress a couple of months ago and I haven't
> had any issues with comment spammers since.

Oh, they hit us WordPress users too, just not as often as MT.  Having it 
automatically moderate comments with certain keywords or more than X 
number of links helps cut it down, and the ability to (a) see all the 
latest comments and (b) mass-delete comments reduces the pain of 
cleanup.  But they do target WP blogs from time to time.

I tend to get a pair of comments sent to the moderation queue every few 
weeks (presumably they figure if the first two didn't show up, they 
won't waste their time with more), but just this morning I had to delete 
a spam comment that came in last night and didn't trip the moderation 
rules.  (One of those with the generic "I like your site" messages and 
the author's URL being the spamvertized site.)

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Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>