09 January 2008

Spammers not allowed!!!


The comments system has been abused very badly by spammers trying to sell all their usual wares, hopefully some new software running on the server now will help to reduce this problem to a tolerable level again.

I don't know how many people are using the Mongoose Blogs.net software, but if I find this solution works well I may make it available.

If you post a legitimate comment that gets culled by an over keen spam killer then email me
andrew@farina1.com and I will see why it got deleted and re-instate it for you.

One bug I noticed and forgot to mention earlier, was that the comments count will be inaccurate. I'll introduce a further fix for this over the next week.

Reader Comments:

 

10 January 2008 by Sebastien Lahtinen

Every single day some spammer using the name "Shelley-" appended by two random characters seems to post onto on of the forms on TBB. They seem to use the same proxy each time. It never gets published but clogs up mailbox. Bad Behaviour was nice on my own blog but that caused me to be locked out at one point from the admin area!!