[wp-hackers] Meet the Spaminator!

[Jonathan Greene]

This is finally (at .9) stopping the spam on my blog!  woot!


On Nov 1, 2004, at 5:58 PM, Kitty wrote:

> http://mookitty.co.uk/devblog/archives/2004/10/31/kittens-spaminator/
>
> It's a mashup of Tar Pit & Three Strikes.
>
> A comment that "strikes out" isn't posted, avoiding mod queue clutter.
> After striking out, the spammer is tar pitted.
> No one is blocked from looking at your site.
> Only comes into play when a comment is posted.
> Light weight and fast, with minimal use of regular expressions.
> The code is shielded from global space, to avoid memory hogging when 
> not
> needed.
> Some of the default weighting are different from the original 3 
> Strikes,
> mainly lack of a proper referer is weighted heavier, to ward off stupid
> spambots.
> Returns a HTTP "OK" message to the spammer so that no flags are raised
> that your site is fighting spam. But prints a message for humans
> explaining what happened.
>
> If you've been using my Spam Words plugin to build up your spam words
> list, then you'll be all set to take full advantage of this.
>
> Hint: drop the last quad of any IP addresses in your spam words list
> (111.222.333.444 becomes 111.222.333) so that out newest holdem 
> friend's
> botnet will get blocked more effectively.
> -- 
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