Well, I finally finished setting up the Blacklist for blog.evula.net. You can find all sorts of information about it here.
I'm very excited about this. It kills roughly 95% of the spam that has been infecting these blogs. The best part is that all of you ("you" being blog.evula.net members) can contribute to the blacklist, and when one person adds a spam URL, it is applied to everyone.
For those using the software for the first time, you probably won't find much spam (if any). That's because when I first installed the program, I ran through everyone's blogs, deleting spam left and right and adding the new URLs to the Blacklist. One blog lost several hundred (at least 400) comments because it was hit so badly by spam.
To give you an idea of how effective this software it, is blocked roughly 100 comments in it's first 24 hours of operation. This weekend, it blocked 127 seperate attempts.
Posted by Eric at August 30, 2004 11:00 PM