Rodent Regatta

For the last few days I’ve been hit very hard by comment-spam. I’m considering my options at this point.

Jay Allen has provided a couple of different insights into how to maintain your blacklist and why IP banning is not effective in fighting spam.

Options at this point include changing weblog tools in hopes that another tool will not be as hard-hit as Movable Type. There’s the possibility that MT 3.0 is more secure from comment-spam with TypeKey. I don’t know that, but I assume it’s an improvement. I could turn comments off completely for this weblog, but I’ve learned far too much from people who read and contribute.

• * * UPDATE * * * To his everlasting credit Jay Allen has tailored my MT-Blacklist file. It’s optimized, streamlined and much more restrictive. For any of you who want to replace your file, here’s mine. To those of you accustomed to commenting, you should be aware that we may get some false positives. You’ve got some other ways to reach me, so let me know if it’s too tight.