New Attempts to Block Comment Spam
I remembered that in my members section, a button suggests I can block members. Block members from what, I don’t know. I tried a combination of blocking and deleting the addresses of spammers. I have a feeling, though, that blocking didn’t work. When I clicked the box to block an e-mail address, the only thing that happened is the box next to the e-mail address became unchecked. With similar features, there’s more than just pressing a button to make something work: Manila usually asks me if I’m sure I want to do that or sends me a confirmation message, for examples. I don’t know what else I expected to happen, but I just have a feeling it didn’t work. Especially since I’ve already received more spam linked to offending e-mail addresses.
A vast majority of the comment spam seems to come from worm.polski-cukier.pl. I don’t know much about the ways servers can block spam, but I think it’s possible for mail servers to block certain domains, so why not blog servers? Maybe I’ll ask the server administrator whether that’s possible. I know I’m not the only one on this server receiving comment spam. I wonder if the other recipients are seeing it from the same URLs I am.
I found a number of spam comments from around September 23 while I was deleting the latest batch of comment spam today. I wonder how frequently this worm crawls and why the spam seems to keep appearing on the same posts. Most of them aren’t in the most popular posts list. It seems like those items would be prime targets for comment spammers.
I keep returning to the question of why the comments appear on posts that already have comments. I’m considering whether it might have something to do with the way the discussion group is set up on the blog. Unfortunately, I don’t know enough about the server, Manila, and all of Manila’s parts to even try to guess what’s happening.
If you watch the discussion group page, you can probably see comment spam appear before your eyes like magic, though the activity seems to have slowed down for the time being.
