http://greengabbro.net/2005/03/29/gah-spam/ rock out to the apparatus Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:27:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://greengabbro.net/2005/03/29/gah-spam/#comment-1818 yami Tue, 05 Apr 2005 00:29:00 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2005/03/29/gah-spam/#comment-1818 And encore une fois! And encore une fois!

]]> http://greengabbro.net/2005/03/29/gah-spam/#comment-1817 yami Tue, 05 Apr 2005 00:17:00 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2005/03/29/gah-spam/#comment-1817 This is a test comment. I’m renaming the script as I type. Whee! This is a test comment. I’m renaming the script as I type. Whee!

]]> http://greengabbro.net/2005/03/29/gah-spam/#comment-1816 yami Wed, 30 Mar 2005 03:23:00 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2005/03/29/gah-spam/#comment-1816 Yeah, I think I’ll need to replace all those file name strings with a reference to some text file in the main directory. Then I can change the filename every week or so… since I need to customize all my themes anyway, it’s really not much extra work. Now that I’ve read my access logs, though, I’m pretty sure it <em>wasn’t</em> the spammers bringing me down. Maybe it was somebody else’s spamemrs. In any case, they were hitting wp-comments-post and wp-trackback directly, so it’s still worth the effort of renaming them. Yeah, I think I’ll need to replace all those file name strings with a reference to some text file in the main directory. Then I can change the filename every week or so… since I need to customize all my themes anyway, it’s really not much extra work.
Now that I’ve read my access logs, though, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t the spammers bringing me down. Maybe it was somebody else’s spamemrs. In any case, they were hitting wp-comments-post and wp-trackback directly, so it’s still worth the effort of renaming them.

]]> http://greengabbro.net/2005/03/29/gah-spam/#comment-1815 Harrison Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:32:00 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2005/03/29/gah-spam/#comment-1815 I’m sure you’ve already looked into this, but renaming the wp-comments file is not, I think, as easy a fix as it used to be, because of the template system, which depends on file name strings. (Of course, it’s all open source, so you can make the modifications that you need. But then you have the problem of keeping those changes though upgrades…) Sorry to hear that you’ve been hit so badly. Plugins like the Spam Stopgap might help somewhat — it forces a client-side javascript hash computation, and, I *think*, it tries to tie up the user’s connection if the check fails. I’m sure you’ve already looked into this, but renaming the wp-comments file is not, I think, as easy a fix as it used to be, because of the template system, which depends on file name strings. (Of course, it’s all open source, so you can make the modifications that you need. But then you have the problem of keeping those changes though upgrades…)
Sorry to hear that you’ve been hit so badly. Plugins like the Spam Stopgap might help somewhat — it forces a client-side javascript hash computation, and, I *think*, it tries to tie up the user’s connection if the check fails.

]]> http://greengabbro.net/2005/03/29/gah-spam/#comment-1814 yami Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:23:00 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2005/03/29/gah-spam/#comment-1814 … and testing, testing, blah blah blah. … and testing, testing, blah blah blah.

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