The Story of David Kaspar

[david]

something is wrong with your comment links:

[david]

Thank you for pointing it out!

The problem was that I was trying to limit a RewriteCond with the standard <LIMIT> directive. This only works for the mod_access commands and not for the mod_rewrite.

The correct way of doing it is to add a RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} instead.

Regarding the mt-bayesian, it has captured ALL spam comments thus saving my main page from embarrassing ... spam. Unfortunately, it has quite a high false positive rate so I have to check for new comments often and release the good ones.

[david]

thanks for your explanation.

i have seen your comment entry im my weblog and gave you an answer. i set up my email adress today, but it does not work until now. perhaps it takes some time. as you may have seen there is some kind of spam in my relatively new weblog - referrer spam. and it will be only a question of time until the first comment spammer arrives. thus it would be interesting to find a good anti-spam solution. and perhaps a good weblog software that has anti-spam functionality build in by default

[david]

I have had to apply a combination of blog software (mt-bayesian) and Apache tweaks.

See below for some options to fight spam comments:

* Study your access log and try to find a pattern spammers are using. If you find one, edit your .htaccess to ban them commenting.

* Almost all comment spam comes from open proxies. Check for open proxies (checkdnsrr() in php) before you allow a comment post.

* Most comment spam is submitted by bots. Implement a decent CAPTCHA (http://dbvt.com/blog/archive/2004/10/29/441.aspx).

* Connect your blog to a centralised IP black list. mt-blacklist does this for MT.

[david]

[david]

checkdnsrr() does NOT test an IP to see whether it's an open proxy or not.

Instead, it uses a specified black list to determin whether an IP is listed or not.

Use it with some major black lists like list.dsbl.org and sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org.

[tito]

are you talking to yourself ?

anyway, when using the translate links on your blog, the font used in the right menu is verry verry small (in IE)...

[david]