Poker attack
OK It seems I’m being abused by someone who wants to use this web site to advertise some sort of on line gambling. I have had a look and according to my software each of those bogus comments was posted from a different IP address so I can’t just add their host to the list of banned hosts that Greymatter software uses. So Im basically looking for suggestions from you guys about how to make it a bit more tricky for a brainless casino robot to post comments without discouraging bona fide commenters from leaving their thoughts.
Please leave your suggestions as comments on this entry, (unless you are selling on-line gambling 
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Raj Says:
I’ve had a quick look
and it seems to be spamming links to xxx.gsm-plus.net.
gsm-plus.net seems down - maybe it’s intended to be a Denial of Service attack on that server.
Anyway (this is messy) is it possible to filter any new blog comments for keywords eg. "gsm-plus.net" and either bin or replace any web-references with white-space.
This obviously only works for spam pointing to these servers, I don’t know if there is anything generic you can do
March 9th, 2005 at 6:06 pmRaj Says:
Ok here is a Wiki comment about this issue :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog_spam
March 9th, 2005 at 6:13 pmRaj Says:
Ok a blog spam database (Might not work with greymatter tho)
http://www.markcarey.com/spamdb/
Sorry for the mutiple posts … does that count as blog spam :satisfied:
March 9th, 2005 at 6:17 pmChris Says:
Spambots are rife on the comments sections of unprotected Blogs. I’ve seen a couple of the blogs I read get riddled with this crap.
Presumably Grey Matter have a patch for this which you should install sharpish (or disable comments).
…Just what the world needs, eh?
March 10th, 2005 at 12:13 pmMark Says:
Raj, thanks for all that research. I learned a lot today, not least about captchas.
I’ve downloaded a new version of the relevant perl script from the greymatter site. It has a ‘throttle’ to prevent too many comments in a short time, and a content check too.
All I need to do is install it at Bitterjug.com…
Except that its the same file that I hacked to add the recent comments list feature :doze:. So I’ll need to **patch** it before I upload. :confused:
March 10th, 2005 at 5:49 pmDrew Says:
As of yesterday m is now a brit
and I hand a quick coffee with someone on tuesday
La santa swing starts today, I sooo wish I was there
March 10th, 2005 at 7:33 pmhelp….need sunshine
Smiles
Drew
Mark Says:
Congratulaions Tigger, on your new citizenship.
I also wish I was at La Santa, with Mad Rena and with Carla and Kevin. Its sunny here, Drew, when are you and M coming to visit?
March 11th, 2005 at 9:37 am