Bad Behavior Helps with Comment Spam
Jan 6th, 2008 by Alex
Because I said that I’d update on my success.
Bad Behavior has blocked 613 access attempts in the last 7 days. 111 got past the plugin, of which 110 were flagged by Akismet as being comment spam. The remaining 1 comment was placed into the moderation queue due to the number of links. So after a week of receiving 100+ comment spam messages every day, not a single one got through. Still not sure why they’re all coming in now, but it’s still pretty slick.
Now if only we could manage the 40 emails per minute that have been flowing into my system since Saturday. All of them are for bogus and non-existent accounts, which are discarded by the mailer without processing or filtering. Even so, that’s 91,480 rejected emails and counting that are putting load on the system…
I’m not sure if my allergies are acting up to the 1920’s-era plaster or if I’m catching the cold that seemed to be going around, but I’m sick and not willing to deal with this at the moment.
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