Stopping Open Proxy Commenters

Matt points to a great concept: stopping comments that come via open proxies.

There are some plugins extant for it … I’m going to take a little time this weekend to try and find a good one to recommend.

Update: I’ve installed LostFocus’s open proxy checking plugin. It’s supposed to filter the comment before it ever gets to the database. For whatever reason, gfmorris.com has been getting hammered by open proxy comment spammers for weeks, so I’ve installed it there and removed all my IPs from my IP Tarpit banlist. I’ll report back after the weekend.

Posted November 5th, 2004 in WordPress by Geof F. Morris.

2 comments:

  1. the Foolish Sage:

    We’re pullin’ for you!

    November 5th, 2004 at 22:29
  2. The Indiana Jones School of Management:

    A Day of Blocking Open Proxy Comment Spammers
    In a little over a day of blocking comment spammers who exploit open proxies, I’ve had 13 comment spammers make attempts that actually made it to my moderation queue. Considering that this value is about the average of spam attempts I was getting per…

    November 6th, 2004 at 13:08

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