Wow, I'm not entirely sure of what I did, but I fixed the blacklist. All I did was delete and readd a few entries (basically "*.spamdomain.com"), and all of a sudden I could check for spam again.
I'm turning the Blacklist back on, and will be mass de-spamming over the course of the day.
Wooooo!
Posted by Eric at July 19, 2005 11:02 AMsnap.
Posted by: nemo at July 19, 2005 11:05 AMI'm enjoying refreshing my blog's Editing Menu page and watching the number of comments drop rapidly. :)
Posted by: EVula at July 19, 2005 11:05 AMAs of right now, everything is completely despammed. I estimate I deleted about 3,500 spam posts (most of which would have been blocked automatically by the existing blacklist entries; I only deleted about 450 that were new sites), and another 300 trackback pings. There are fewer pings than comments because there are only two blogs that generate the pings (my own and Audiophile's).
Posted by: EVula at July 19, 2005 02:31 PMI've never noticed spam at all. You must be doing your job, Ericman.
Posted by: Steelix at July 21, 2005 03:56 AMWait, no, I did delete 5 once. But hey, that's brilliant. Just 5.
Posted by: Steelix at July 21, 2005 03:59 AMI usually catch most spam over the course of the day (and with every blacklist entry, it protects everyone against spam). Hardly anyone ever sees how much they get.
The interesting thing about the blacklist being down is it shows just how much work it does around here. It was only down two days and all the blogs were hit with 3500 posts. Damn.
Posted by: EVula at July 21, 2005 10:01 AMI feel so relieved! EVula rocks!
Posted by: Audiophile at July 21, 2005 06:30 PMseconded. before i banned everyone from posting, i got about a hundred spam posts in the course of about 18 hours. I didn't know so many people had no lives. or do bots do it?
Posted by: Kelly at July 22, 2005 04:15 PMNo, it's all bots. Spam is almost never manually done; to do it manually just takes too much time for it to be profitable.
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