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B2evolution antispam list
Before I implemented comment captchas on this blog I was flodded with comment spam. Captchas helped a lot! Like removing 95+% of all comment spam, however some still gets through. Deleting a spam comment now and then have irritated me greatly, but until earlier this week I haven't really done much about it.
After just a bit of research I decided that my first move was to automatically pull the B2evolution antispam list. I also considered Akismet but one step at a time.
Here is the simple script called from cron I use to pull the updates:
#!/bin/sh
site=http://example.com/admin.php
name=username
pass=password
cookies=`mktemp`
wget -O /dev/null --post-data="login=$name&pwd=$pass" \
"${site}?ctrl=antispam&action=poll"
It's not perfect since at least one comment spam went through already.
I'd like to hear what other people to prevent comment spam (other than disabling comments :-) )?
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2 comments
Comment from: Darren King [Visitor] · http://www.souped.net/
I found that linksleeve is another good option. It's got a rolling database of "no go" domains and URLs. We use it at my work which is a very large corporate site servicing over 2 million uniques a day and very little comment spam makes it through the slink sleeve filter. YOu can read about it here: linksleeve[dot]org
2010-04-08 @ 03:42
Comment from: jaervosz [Member]
Sounds cool, I guess I'll check it out. Yet another line of defense:)
2010-04-08 @ 08:03