October 12, 2004
Hidden Spam
Recently I have had major blog spam hits. I got all of the ones that I could find (with the help of MT Blacklist), but I think that 10 or 15 got through the cracks. I do not know how to view a list of comments more extensive than the five most recent that it shows.
As a result I have no idea what to tell MT Blacklist what to look for.
So, I am asking you, dear readers, to let me know if you encounter blog spam on any archive posts you happen to be reading. That way I can zap them. The best way to let me know is to email me at EKeilholtz [at] a[merica]o[n]l[ine] [dot] com. Thanks!
Posted by erik at October 12, 2004 3:21 PM | TrackBackI also get my comments emailed to me and that helps a lot - at the bottom of the email is a click and go link called 'de-spam with MT blacklist' and it does all the work.
Oh, you should also be able to click on the stuff that appears on the de-spam utility to do both an ISP and url despam.
you could have the comments emailed to you. You set that in your user profile. But that will only help you catch the new ones as they come in.
To weed out the old ones, you could search on words like casino, meds, "you have a great site!", etc....
Posted by: Peony Moss at October 13, 2004 4:06 PMYou might think of updating to the latest version of Movable Type. It is still free for one author with no more than three blogs.
The interface is much improved and you are able to see all the comments.
The new MT-BLACKLIST is also more powerful since it automatically tags comments to old posts so that they must be approved before they are seen.
I know you don't do the update's yourself but it only took me five minutes to update to the latest.
Posted by: Jeff Miller at October 12, 2004 7:45 PM