Hacks and Gadgets by HJL

I’ve been getting thousands of attempted comment and trackback spam across my site during the past few days. Fortunately, most of it is getting caught by the keyword filters.

This round of spam seems better implemented than previous ones. The incoming comments and trackbacks are distributed across the entire site, rather than on one or two posts, and are also coming in from a broad set of IP addresses and user agents, which makes it hard to use .htaccess rules for blocking it.

I’ve added a few more entries to the comment blacklist in Wordpress, which has reduced the number of spurious comments making it through auto-moderation.

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