Comments on: A Spammer’s a Spammer http://gfmorris.com/2005/07/29/a-spammers-a-spammer/ The Life and Times of Geof F. Morris Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:03:05 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Geof F. Morris http://gfmorris.com/2005/07/29/a-spammers-a-spammer/comment-page-1/#comment-4515 Geof F. Morris Sun, 31 Jul 2005 00:11:18 +0000 http://ijsm.org/archives/2005/07/29/a-spammers-a-spammer/#comment-4515 Dave: Good to know. [And yes, I let RK sneak a peek at my SK2 blacklist.] Watching both is pretty much ensuring that nothing slips through here, which is good, because I'm getting lots of attempts right now. Dave: Good to know. [And yes, I let RK sneak a peek at my SK2 blacklist.] Watching both is pretty much ensuring that nothing slips through here, which is good, because I’m getting lots of attempts right now.

]]> By: dr Dave http://gfmorris.com/2005/07/29/a-spammers-a-spammer/comment-page-1/#comment-4514 dr Dave Fri, 29 Jul 2005 16:24:09 +0000 http://ijsm.org/archives/2005/07/29/a-spammers-a-spammer/#comment-4514 Indeed, there's more than a connection in passing between the two. But usually, you shouldn't really have to worry about it: - If a comment spammer comes to the comment page with a fake referrer (as they often do), RK2 will block them before they even get the comment form. - If spammers end up in SK2's blacklist (with a score high enough), they'll automatically get blocked by RK2 (provided you've enabled SK2 compat in RK2's config file). It used to be that repeating offenders in RK would get an IP ban (regardless of further use of referrers), but that lead to a handful of strange false positive problems, so I opted to disable IP blacklisting in RK and leave it to SK2 only... Indeed, there’s more than a connection in passing between the two. But usually, you shouldn’t really have to worry about it:
- If a comment spammer comes to the comment page with a fake referrer (as they often do), RK2 will block them before they even get the comment form.
- If spammers end up in SK2’s blacklist (with a score high enough), they’ll automatically get blocked by RK2 (provided you’ve enabled SK2 compat in RK2’s config file).

It used to be that repeating offenders in RK would get an IP ban (regardless of further use of referrers), but that lead to a handful of strange false positive problems, so I opted to disable IP blacklisting in RK and leave it to SK2 only…

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