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Put that URL in the blacklist 🙂
Have a beer.
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jfmxl
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That was easy. Don’t know how I missed it … I guess because it was ‘below the fold’ in my browser …
I’m afraid of Akismet or other such ‘helpful’ services … might be false-flag operations gathering information on those they are ‘helping’ … like getting ‘help’ from CISPA-author google … don’t trust the Greeks bearing ‘gifts’ …
Thanks.
If my list of spammers gets long and seems helpful I’ll publish it for anyone else interested … and they can use it or not.
(@jfmxl)
13 years, 10 months ago
Comment spammers at my site typically put a url to their site in the comment url field, hoping, I’m told, that search engines will somehow find their grillions of bogus postings at my and others’ sites and stupidly move their sites up in their search result returns for terms having anything to do with their sites. I can’t imagine this works but spammers certainly keep trying.
How can I instuct wordpress that any ‘comment’ listed from domain xyz.com is to be treated as spam?
I’ve added whole russian and chinese subnets to my .htaccess file … but the url in the comment url field, the payload from the spammer’s point of view, seems to be the real indicator of spam comments.
Thanks.