Blocking comment spammers

25 May 2004 · 0 comments

Good to read this today on Typepad Resources TypePad vs. Comment Spammers Recently we added some simple tests that eliminate a large amount of comment spam on TypePad blogs. According to our logs, most spammers try to cover their tracks by sending their posts through an “Open Proxy Server” … we started blocking Open Proxies [...]

 

Good to read this today on Typepad Resources

TypePad vs. Comment Spammers

Recently we added some simple tests that eliminate a large amount of comment spam on TypePad blogs. According to our logs, most spammers try to cover their tracks by sending their posts through an “Open Proxy Server” … we started blocking Open Proxies — all 1.5 million of them. It immediately reduced the comment spam problem. In fact on our first day it blocked over 20,000 spam attempts!

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