December 1, 2004
The War Against Spam Rages On!
I have been getting a string of spam attacks that contain no URL for me to add to the blacklist. Therefore, I have had to resort to IP banning. I am always a little hesitant to ban IP's, because I do not exactly understand how the whole thing works, and I don't want to ban someone from commenting who did nothing wrong.
However, something needed to be done about this miscreant, so I banned a whole bunch of IP's. If you are trying to comment and cannot, please email me at EKeilholtz [@t] a[merica]o[n]l[ine][dot]com and I will lift the ban on your IP.
Posted by erik at December 1, 2004 9:09 AM | TrackBackUsing blacklist, you can also ban text matching words (like every pharmaceutical under the sun, a domain in an e-mail address, variations of gambling words, mortgage, etc). You have to be careful not to ban to generally - if you'd banned "mortgage", you wouldn't get this message.
I posted on my blacklisting endeavours here and my list is up for grabs if you're so inclined.
Posted by: stephen at December 1, 2004 10:38 AM