Spam defences up’d a notch
Having had quite a lot of comment-spam on the blog in the last 2-3 weeks, (none of it has got through to the blog, thanks to Kittens Friendly Comments (migrated into the core of WP 3.0, but necessary for earlier versions), but dealing with the mails informing me about new postings and moderating the comments that were put on hold was becoming a hassle). Yesterday I closed all comments older than 21 days and installed an additional plug-in – Three Strikes as well – this should stop most of the spam even hitting the moderation list.
If you have any problems now commenting on the blog – and you are not posting spam – drop me a line, to let me know, and I will see what I can do to help.
November 1st, 2004 at 15:11:15
Spam has been driving me crazy, I got hit 2-3 days on the run by the same group and it took seemingly forever to get rid of it all. So thanks for the links to plugins that may help.
November 1st, 2004 at 20:11:55
Well, if you haven’t tried it, I’d recommend Three Strikes- it has been brilliant here- not a single e-mail for comments to be approved, since I installed it (apart from your’s, of course
) The only “problem” I had, is that it displayed weirdly in the plug-in manager – all the code got in there too, but it works fine!