I just weathered my first major spam attack. You didn’t see any fallout, because WordPress handled it with ease. 110 comments were posted to my blog in the span of about 18 minutes. The stupid spammer used a URI that got caught by my WordPress blacklist (not the entire URI, but part of it). None of the comments went live, instead being held in moderation. Deleting all of them took 4 clicks.
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Spam Attack I just weathered my first major spam attack. You didn’t see any fallout, because WordPress handled it with ease. 110 comments were posted to my blog in the span of about 18 minutes. The stupid spammer used a
Rob says
I don’t know if I got on some sort of spamming a-list, but my blacklist program is blocking an average of 80 – 150 comment spams a night. Its insane.
The first ones come in around 2 or 3 in the morning (central time) and the last ones usually come in around 6. This happens every single day, 7 days a week with a few exceptions. Its nuts. But MT blacklist gets them all. I probably have one slip through maybe once every week or so.
Not too bad if you ask me.