{"id":425,"date":"2004-12-12T11:36:35","date_gmt":"2004-12-12T15:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2004\/12\/mt-blacklist_corrections_and_suggestions\/"},"modified":"2004-12-12T11:36:35","modified_gmt":"2004-12-12T15:36:35","slug":"mt-blacklist_corrections_and_suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/12\/mt-blacklist_corrections_and_suggestions\/","title":{"rendered":"MT-Blacklist Corrections and Suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you haven’t seen it already, there’s an important post about some changes to the MT-Blacklist master blacklist<\/a> on Jay Allen’s site. Jay gives some suggestions about some expressions and URL Patterns to add to your blacklist. <\/p>\n

As an aside, I’m still trippin’ off of the amount of comment spam attempts that are blocked by MT-Blacklist. Those few URL Patterns that I added<\/a> have done an incredible job. Today alone my “pics” URL pattern blocked over one hundred spam attempts. It’s now blocked 1,168 comments in just a few weeks. I wonder when\/if these clowns will give up trying to spam Movable Type powered blogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you haven’t seen it already, there’s an important post about some changes to the MT-Blacklist master blacklist on Jay Allen’s site. Jay gives some suggestions about some expressions and URL Patterns to add to your blacklist. As an aside, I’m still trippin’ off of the amount of comment spam attempts that are blocked… Continue reading MT-Blacklist Corrections and Suggestions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":414,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/14\/comment_spammers_are_wilding_out\/","url_meta":{"origin":425,"position":0},"title":"Comment Spammers are Wilding Out","date":"November 14, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I just took a look at my MT-Blacklist statistics and was shocked by what I saw. A couple of weeks ago I noticed an increase in the amount of comment spam that was slipping by the blacklist. So I decided to add some items of my own to the filter.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":463,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/19\/movable_type_316_released\/","url_meta":{"origin":425,"position":1},"title":"Movable Type 3.16 released","date":"April 19, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Six Apart has just released Movable Type 3.16. Hopefully some of its 'over one hundred fixes' will fix the annoying problems I've had recently. On a related note, this SpamLookup plugin looks like it's worth installing. It's so effective that Jay Allen, the author of MT-Blacklist has disabled his MT-Blacklist\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":220,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/15\/james_sengs_bayesian_filter_for_fighting_blog_spam\/","url_meta":{"origin":425,"position":2},"title":"James Seng’s Bayesian Filter for Fighting Blog Spam","date":"October 15, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Let me first say that James Seng is the man! A few days ago he provided the world with his excellent CAPTCHA-based spam solution for Movable Type blogs. Now he's created another spam blocker which uses a Bayesian filter. This new filter works on TrackBacks too. 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I'm glad to hear that Siz Apart is on this because I was really getting worried after\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":238,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/02\/loving_my_spam_filter\/","url_meta":{"origin":425,"position":4},"title":"Loving My Spam Filter","date":"November 2, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm really liking the way that MT-Bayesian is working out. Not only is it catching spam, but it's also filtering out the ignorant comments that we all get every so often. You know the type -- those comments in which every other word is a curse word, and the rest\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":177,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/03\/ban_this_ip_address\/","url_meta":{"origin":425,"position":5},"title":"Ban This IP Address!","date":"September 3, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"I've just received my second (porn) spam comment in about a 2 weeks from the same range of IP addresses. The first came from 61.181.5.80 and the second came from 61.181.5.147. I've now blocked both, as well as the whole range of 61.181.5.* (I hope). 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