Overzealous spam filters?
Submitted by dougj on Wed, 2006-04-05 21:59.
It would appear that our spam module has started to flag most domains as potential spam domains. This is not a big surpise, given the 400+ comment spam a day we now receive.
I think I've now set it aright, so if you've experienced problems submitting comments recently, it should be fine now. However, if you still experience issues posting, please let me know by using my contact form.
We're still having some issues with trackback spam (which, unfortunately, is also hitting us hard), but I hope to figure out those problems soon enough.
A big thank-you to Melissa Hall for bringing this to my attention!
»
- Login to post comments
Ours did that too
We had to turn the strength right down for all the blacklists. It still blocked things. Finally, we had to make people who actually comment regularly into 'trusted' members, and set that group to bypass the filters completely.
For trackbacks, I just set it not to even bother telling me about the spam any more, and if they don't get through the filters, they just vanish. We probably miss some now, but getting notified of fifty or a hundred failed spam attempts a day was starting to get tedious.
Michael Randall
http://pigpog.com
Recovering genuine comments?
Were you able to go through what the spam filter quarantined and rescue genuine comments? Or were they all flushed?
Not flushed yet, but...
There are several thousand comments in the spam queue, and the admin interface doesn't allow me to browse them very easily. So unless anyone posted an absolute masterpiece which must be retrieved lest civilisation end as we know it (which wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing), I'm not going to wallow through the muck of all the cheap Canadian drugs (ha!), Nigerian schemes, instant diplomas, and mortgages for enhanced sexual organs....
dj