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Yes, a lot		158 (23.37%)
Yes, some		131 (19.38%)
Hardly any		83 (12.28%)
None at all		304 (44.97%)

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Are you getting spam on your Geeklog site?

Authored by: Dirk on Friday, March 25 2005 @ 08:14 am EST

The idea behind this and the other poll is to get a feel if and how spam really is a problem for Geeklog sites these days. Technically, the SpamX plugin should pretty much take care of it, but how much spam do you actually see?

Are you getting spam on your Geeklog site?

Authored by: RickW on Friday, March 25 2005 @ 01:14 pm EST

I voted none at all. I don't allow anonymous posting for comments nor the forums plugin, and new accounts require email verification.

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Are you getting spam on your Geeklog site?

Authored by: trip on Saturday, May 07 2005 @ 04:31 am EDT

SpamX did well, but for some reason, I got some whack-o's trying to comment
spam me. The key work to block was "i n C est" In case you've been hit by
these sick-os (naturaly, remove the spaces). After a while of their posts being
blocked, they have tried a whole lot less.

Are you getting spam on your Geeklog site?

Authored by: ByteEnable on Friday, March 25 2005 @ 01:28 pm EST

Spamx does a very good job. However, I still get targeted by porn guys occasionally. So I added in key words to whack'em. With that said, I modified the comment code to put in rel="nofollow" for the ones that do get through.

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Are you getting spam on your Geeklog site?

Authored by: ajzz on Tuesday, April 26 2005 @ 09:36 pm EDT

Referer spam seems quite prevalent with the Stats/GUS plugins. Is there some way to integrate a Spam-X like feature into the respective plugins? Or does this even make sense?

Are you getting spam on your Geeklog site?

Authored by: Dirk on Wednesday, April 27 2005 @ 01:26 pm EDT

Referer spam should be blocked as early as possible, i.e. by the webserver, so that it doesn't create extra load (due to the need to create a session, etc.).

I've explained how to do this here.

The Spam-X plugin only kicks in once somebody actually tries to post something, so it wouldn't help against referer spam.

bye, Dirk

Are you getting spam on your Geeklog site?

Authored by: ajzz on Wednesday, April 27 2005 @ 04:55 pm EDT

Ah, going the .htaccess way seems indeed a step more preemptive than using the ban plugin (as things stand now on my site).

Unfortunately, my host is very unhappy enabling .htaccess overrides. This made me question whether something like the ban or Spam-X could be integrated with stats/gus. However, in light of your post, it looks like such integration would not release much load on the server and seems unnecessary. The only benefit i can think of off hand is that a world-readable stats plugin would not provide free links to the next free-dvd-copy .com (google-fed pearl script). But we already have a ban plugin for that.

On a different note, the article you (Dirk) refer to is very useful in general. Is there some place where such informative articles are collected - FAQs? Is something like "Hardening a Geeklog Site" worthy of a support forum topic since it goes beyond installation or plugin help and general stuff?

Thanks,

Ajay

Are you getting spam on your Geeklog site?

Authored by: Dirk on Thursday, April 28 2005 @ 03:52 pm EDT

The article above is linked from the FAQ entry How can I speed up my Geeklog site?

I do actually intend to write up a similar FAQ entry on security issues, but haven't found the time and inspiration yet ...

bye, Dirk

Are you getting spam on your Geeklog site?

Authored by: Dirk on Friday, April 29 2005 @ 06:11 pm EDT

Well, it seems like there is a way. It still requires the PHP interpreter to be fired up, so it needs more resources than the .htaccess approach, but integrating it into lib-common.php before the sessions are created will at least keep the load off of the database.

bye, Dirk

Are you getting spam on your Geeklog site?

Authored by: ronack on Wednesday, April 27 2005 @ 05:30 pm EDT

I was getting quite a bit pre Spam-X, now I just get a very small amount. 1 here and there

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