Some new blog spam fighting resources

Arrgh, I and a lot of others around here were knocked online for a while there by some unspecified internet error. Some got a little testy… Anyway, we’re back online…

Some of the readers have posted new resources.

Joe wrote a few .htaccess rules that will outlaw any proxy access, if you’re in a hurry and need to close down a proxy before you know how to turn off the service: htaccess to close proxy. This is especially useful for clueless sys admins, or sys admins in a hurry…

Justin Mason, the original author of Spam Assasin, has started a discussion list for blogspam. Send an e-mail to: blogspam-subscribe /at/ spamassassin.apache.org

And a general anti spam blog and Spam Kings Blog

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And it’s weird. The Bulgarians are back to comment spamming. How come they make intense spam runs with trackback, and then stop abruptly? Did they hire a trackback script for a day? Alexander tends to do the same.

One Response to “Some new blog spam fighting resources”

  1. cindy Says:

    I think it was a dry run for a bigger and badder experiment to come… scary isn’t it?