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21 October 2005 12 Comments

Blocked Comments

I have been using a plugin called DNS-Anti-Spam on this blog. The concept is that the IP address of a commenter is compared against a known list of blacklisted IPs, many of which have come through abuse@ ISP reports.

I thought this was working pretty good until I started hearing some grumblings from some folks that they could not comment because their IPs were blocked. I have no idea how many people this has affected for a very long time, but I have disabled that plugin.

Feel free to post comments now.

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Written by Aaron Brazell on October 21, 2005

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12 Responses to “Blocked Comments”

  1. Andy Merrett 21 October 2005 at 8:39 am #

    Are you using WordPress? (I’m too lazy to work it out for myself!)

    If so Spam Karma works pretty good.

  2. Andy Merrett 21 October 2005 at 9:39 am #

    Are you using WordPress? (I’m too lazy to work it out for myself!)

    If so Spam Karma works pretty good.

  3. Ingoal 21 October 2005 at 10:23 am #

    Well, I’ve been blocked for the first time today…so I guess now I won’t be anymore, yippi!

    On another note: I just added another gun to my antispam arsenal (on top of Kitten’s Spaminator): Bad Behaviour

    Success so far: double thumbs up…near 0 spam to moderate anymore and no complaints so far – after all other blogs (i.e. Jeremy over at ensight) are using it too and if there were any major problems someone would have heard complaints and made a post about it…

  4. Aaron Brazell 21 October 2005 at 10:55 am #

    Yes, I am using WordPress, Andy. I installed Spam Karma 2 yesterday thanks to a saavy reader’s recommendation. I’ve been watching the stats in the stats panel it provides and it is amazingly good.

    Ingo– I used Bad Behavior, but it does some funky things with WordPress 1.6 so I stopped.

  5. Ingoal 21 October 2005 at 11:23 am #

    Well, I’ve been blocked for the first time today…so I guess now I won’t be anymore, yippi!

    On another note: I just added another gun to my antispam arsenal (on top of Kitten’s Spaminator): Bad Behaviour

    Success so far: double thumbs up…near 0 spam to moderate anymore and no complaints so far – after all other blogs (i.e. Jeremy over at ensight) are using it too and if there were any major problems someone would have heard complaints and made a post about it…

  6. Aaron Brazell 21 October 2005 at 11:55 am #

    Yes, I am using WordPress, Andy. I installed Spam Karma 2 yesterday thanks to a saavy reader’s recommendation. I’ve been watching the stats in the stats panel it provides and it is amazingly good.

    Ingo– I used Bad Behavior, but it does some funky things with WordPress 1.6 so I stopped.

  7. Aaron Brazell 21 October 2005 at 1:19 pm #

    I like this ditty from the logs:

    Retro-spanked 2 comments.

    I wonder if the comments liked being retro-spanked? :-)

  8. Aaron Brazell 21 October 2005 at 2:19 pm #

    I like this ditty from the logs:

    Retro-spanked 2 comments.

    I wonder if the comments liked being retro-spanked? :-)

  9. Malnurtured Snay 21 October 2005 at 9:22 pm #

    I had mucho problems with spam before I installed SpamKarma. I love me some SpamKarma.

  10. Malnurtured Snay 21 October 2005 at 10:22 pm #

    I had mucho problems with spam before I installed SpamKarma. I love me some SpamKarma.

  11. Aaron Brazell 21 October 2005 at 11:13 pm #

    So far, I love it too…. it was the one spam solution I hadn’t tried. Thanks for the tip/ :-)

  12. Aaron Brazell 22 October 2005 at 12:13 am #

    So far, I love it too…. it was the one spam solution I hadn’t tried. Thanks for the tip/ :-)