Comments on: 1.6b release of mt blacklist

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for posting this Dan. I’ve been looking for just such a thing for my new site. It’s not even finished (it’s been live for three days) and I’ve had numerous offers to increase the size of an anatomical item I don’t have. Sheesh.

By: jason

jason — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

1.5 was a big improvement. I have still received a couple hits from time to time, about six comment spams yesterday. But the cleanup took about thirty seconds vs. five minutes to track them all down.

By: jason

jason — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Sorry, had to add this. I just updated and ran De-spam on my entire comment database. It found two that I had previously missed. Shweeeet.

By: dan

dan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

The first large-scale spam I received (90 comments) took me over an hour to clean it out. The most recent attack (30 comments) were taken care of in less than a minute. I almost look forward to spammers trying to spam me because it’s so easy to delete them. I like to make them waste their time.

By: Renee

Renee — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Now if only we could track down some virus writers and get some of that reward $$ from Microsoft…

By: Cameron

Cameron — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve had quite a few spams myself this morning. The plugin is a big help, but I would like it to have a 1-click mechanism to automatically blacklist the domain on a comment. That way I wouldn’t have to type in such vulgar words.

By: dan

dan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Cameron: It does have a way to do that. In each notification e-mail (sent when someone makes a comment) there is a link at the bottom that will remove all comments from that IP address or that have that URL, and automatically add the URL to the blacklist.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I originally thought that link would do it, but I’ve clicked on it many a times, and it just seems to take me to the main Quick-add list, with no mention of the offending domain. I looked at it closer, and I may have found the problem (I haven’t checked it yet). When I’m not logged into MT, it takes me first to a login page. I login, but that seems to rinse the URL of the arguments at the end. Hmm.

By: dan

dan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

In version 1.4 the link was broken (at least for me) but if you’re already logged in to Movable Type, in 1.5 the link goes to a page where you can delete the offending comment, and all other comments that match the IP or a URL.