Spam Strikes Again
Friday, January 07, 2005, at 07:11AM
By Eric Richardson
It amazes me that just a week after re-adding comments, I'm already getting comment spam. One I deleted yesterday, and one today. I had long thought that such posts were enabled by so many sites running standard tools like Movable Type, etc, and that by doing my own thing they would have to manually account for my site.
Well, either the comment spam tools are more thorough than I had imagined or the spammers are pretty bored. In any case I just added IP address logging to comments, so I think my solution for now will just be to start banning IPs that produce comment spam. If that doesn't work I'll get a little harsher.
Update (4:06pm): The first spam to have its IP logged came from a dynamic IP pool under http://interbusiness.it.