I've been really mad the last few weeks by the number of spam posts in my weblog- and I don't want to turn off comments / trackback to stop it.
Now thanks to a neat little MT plugin - Jay Allen's MT Blacklist, I have a way to fight back! Go way, you peddlers of anatomy-enlarging-pills! I am armed with MT-Blacklist, and not afraid to use it !!
MT-Blacklist works in a neat, yet simple way:
Spam posts on blogs have a unique weakness. They exist, not to sell stuff, but to bump up the Google page rank of websites.
So spammers can change the comment text, and the IP address from where they post, but not their URL. The URL needs to be the same, if they want to be noticed by Google.
MT-Blacklist filters on the URL, and not on IP address (like MT's IP-banning filter). The latest blacklist is available from a centralized site, and Jay eventually hopes to have peer-to-peer distributed way to share this. Thanks Jay!
Posted by vivek at June 27, 2004 04:17 PM | TrackBack