[wp-hackers] A rise in comment spam falling through to moderation

[Dave Cohen]

Thanks to all.  I'm going to try out Elliots and Thiago's suggestions
when I get back home later this week.  Gotta love working a business
conference in sunny Florida when your house is getting buried with 2+
feet of expected snow!

-Dave



On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 14:59:36 -0200, Thiago Becker
<thiago.becker at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been using Spam Karma, and it catched everything without error until now.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:07:26 +0000, r at schestowitz.com <r at schestowitz.com> wrote:
> > Quoting Dave Cohen <cohen.dave at gmail.com>:
> >
> > > Was just curious if others are seeing the same problems as I.  More and
> > > more comment spam is falling through to the moderation queue than ever
> > > before.  I have 3 implementations of arsenal in my fight, renamed
> > > wp-comments-post.php, Kitten's SpamWords, and Kitten's Spaminator.  All
> > > of these were working great until this week.  Was it just a matter of
> > > time before they figured out how to get around our walls, or are they
> > > using new techniques we don't have an answer for?
> >
> > Spaminator seems to do a darn good job for me (over 100 interceptions in the
> > past 20 hours), but my friend Harvey Tobkes, for whom I set up his blog, gets
> > quite a few pieces of junk flooding through. Renaming the 'URI' field to 'Web
> > site' seemed to have made the spam harmless though.
> >
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Best Regards,
Dave Cohen