[geeklog-devtalk] SPAM Article

[Dirk Haun]

Vincent Furia wrote:


>Nothing I'd recommend to go into Geeklog


Agreed, but an interesting case study nonethless.


On a related note: Our special spammer friend has been very quiet
recently - or so I thought. Sure, he's still doing his referrer spamming,
but those are easily catched in a .htaccess.

Then, yesterday, I got a single trackback spam attempt on geeklog.info
(which was blocked by the SpamX plugin). On closer inspection, I found
another 20 attempts in my logfiles, and another batch from February 28th
that had gone unnoticed. Or rather, that had been blocked silently.

Therefore, I'm now confident to say that this method here really works.
Check it out: http://www.candygenius.com/spampop

It's only when our friend doesn't use that proxy that the SpamX plugin
has to kick into action. Very nice and effective :-)

bye, Dirk


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