Posted by Troy Piggins on 01/15/07 05:35

* Allodoxaphobia wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:09:20 +1000, Troy Piggins wrote:
[snip]
>> What are the latest/current solutions or philosophies for
>> deterring spam hitting my comments?
>
> I found (the hard way) that having the comment page 1 directory lower
> than the referencing page _and_ having robots.txt disallow it (the
> sub-directory) keeps the sewage-sucking septic slugs from posting on it.
> The reason? They probably find message boards, etc. by Googling for
> them. And, your comment page will not be indexed by the search engines,
> so it does the scum-sucking slime snakes no good to post on it.

Your pronouns are truly poetic :)
I feel the same way about them.

> The Hard Way (that I referred to above) was having _correctly_ deny'ied
> (via robots.txt) only 2 out of 3 message boards built that way on a
> domain I have. I fat-fingered the entry for the 3rd one. Guess which
> one started getting slammed by postings from botnets? The other two
> have not even seen a dead simple probe -- which usually precedes the
> 'payload' postings.
>
> Of course, that ain't the _only_ tactic. Disallowing any href/http/www
> references is A Damn Good Thing, too. If it does them no good they
> won't pick on you -- there's too many *easy* targets out there.
>
> Another option: .htaccess. All 3 of my message boards are/should be
> USA-centric. I deny'ied by high level ip net block ranges as I saw
> problems show up.

Thanks for the advice, mate. I'll give that a go.

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